Black hole portal into hidden valleys

Sergei Dubovsky, Victor Gorbenko

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    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 languageEnglish (US)
    Article number106002
    JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
    Volume83
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    StatePublished - May 4 2011

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
    • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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