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Title: Bulk and brane decay of a (4+n)-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole: Scalar radiation

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE (United Kingdom)
  2. Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology, Joseph Fourier University, CNRS-IN2P3, 53, avenue de Martyrs, 38026 Grenoble cedex (France)

In this paper, we extend the idea that the spectrum of Hawking radiation can reveal valuable information on a number of parameters that characterize a particular black hole background--such as the dimensionality of spacetime and the value of coupling constants--to gain information on another important aspect: the curvature of spacetime. We investigate the emission of Hawking radiation from a D-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole emitted in the form of scalar fields, and employ both analytical and numerical techniques to calculate greybody factors and differential energy emission rates on the brane and in the bulk. The energy emission rate of the black hole is significantly enhanced in the high-energy regime with the number of spacelike dimensions. On the other hand, in the low-energy part of the spectrum, it is the cosmological constant that leaves a clear footprint, through a characteristic, constant emission rate of ultrasoft quanta determined by the values of black hole and cosmological horizons. Our results are applicable to 'small' black holes arising in theories with an arbitrary number and size of extra dimensions, as well as to pure 4-dimensional primordial black holes, embedded in a de Sitter spacetime.

OSTI ID:
20709266
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 71, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.104002; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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