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What we (don't) know about black-hole formation in high-energy collisions

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Vitor Cardoso1,2, Emanuele Berti1 and Marco Cavaglià1

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Higher-dimensional scenarios allow for the formation of mini black holes from TeV-scale particle collisions. The purpose of this letter is to review and compare different methods for the estimate of the total gravitational energy emitted in this process. To date, black-hole formation has mainly been studied using an apparent horizon search technique. This approach yields only an upper bound on the gravitational energy emitted during black-hole formation. Alternative calculations based on instantaneous collisions of point particles and black-hole perturbation theory suggest that the emitted gravitational energy may be smaller. New and more refined methods may be necessary to accurately describe black-hole formation in high-energy particle collisions.


PACS

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity

MSC

83C57 Black holes

83C40 Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 12 (21 June 2005)

Received 21 April 2005, in final form 17 May 2005

Published 6 June 2005



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