Abstract
Superradiant instability turns rotating astrophysical black holes into unique probes of light axions. We consider what happens when a light axion is coupled to a strongly coupled hidden gauge sector. In this case superradiance results in an adiabatic increase of a hidden sector CP-violating θ parameter in a near horizon region. This may trigger a first order phase transition in the gauge sector. As a result a significant fraction of a black hole mass is released as a cloud of hidden mesons and can be later converted into electromagnetic radiation. This results in a violent electromagnetic burst. The characteristic frequency of such bursts may range from ∼100eV to ∼100MeV.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 106002 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 83 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 4 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)