English

Pre-Hawking Radiation from a Collapsing Shell

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the effect of induced massive radiation given off during the time of collapse of a massive spherically symmetric domain wall in the context of the functional Schr\"odinger formalism. Here we find that the introduction of mass suppresses the occupation number in the infrared regime of the induced radiation during the collapse. The suppression factor is found to be given by eβme^{-\beta m}, which is in agreement with the expected Planckian distribution of induced radiation. Thus a massive collapsing domain wall will radiate mostly (if not exclusively) massless scalar fields, making it difficult for the domain wall to shed any global quantum numbers and evaporate before the horizon is formed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1011.2219,
  title  = {Pre-Hawking Radiation from a Collapsing Shell},
  author = {Eric Greenwood and Dmitry I. Podolsky and Glenn D. Starkman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2219},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures. We updated the acknowledgments as well as added a statement clarifying that we are following the methods first laid out in Phys. Rev. D 76, 024005 (2007)

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