Branes and Black holes in Collision

dc.creatorFlachi, Antonino
dc.creatorTanaka, Takahiro
dc.date2007-03-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:03:16Z
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dc.descriptionWe study the collision of a brane with a black hole. Our aim is to explore the topology changing process of perforation of a brane. The brane is described as a field theoretical domain wall in the context of an axion-like model consisting of a complex scalar effective field theory with approximate U(1) symmetry. We simulate numerically the dynamics of the collision and illustrate the transition from the configuration without a hole to the pierced one with the aid of a phase diagram. The process of perforation is found to depend on the collisional velocity, and, contrary to our expectation, we observe that above a critical value of the velocity, the black hole has no chance to perforate the wall. That is: high energy collisions do not assist piercing. We also show that, only when the model parameters are fine-tuned so that the energy scale of the string is very close to that of the domain wall, the collision of the wall with the black hole has a possibility to provide a mechanism to erase domain walls, if the hole expands. However, in such cases, domain walls will form with many holes edged by a string and therefore disappear eventually. Therefore this mechanism is unlikely to be a solution to the cosmological domain wall problem, although it may cause some minor effects on the evolution of a domain wall network.
dc.description14 pages; 9 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703019
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703019
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D76:025007,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.025007
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/188535
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleBranes and Black holes in Collision
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