Black holes from high-energy beam--beam collisions
Author(s) -
Emmanuel Kohlprath,
G. Veneziano
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/057
Subject(s) - massless particle , physics , beam (structure) , rotational symmetry , collision , high energy , shock wave , cosmology , space (punctuation) , energy (signal processing) , fractal , shock (circulatory) , black hole (networking) , classical mechanics , computational physics , mechanics , mathematical physics , quantum mechanics , optics , mathematical analysis , particle physics , mathematics , computer network , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , routing protocol , computer security , routing (electronic design automation) , computer science , link state routing protocol
Using a recent technique, proposed by Eardley and Giddings, we extend theirresults to the high-energy collision of two beams of massless particles, i.e.of two finite-front shock waves. Closed (marginally) trapped surfaces can bedetermined analytically in several cases even for collisions at non-vanishingimpact parameter in D\ge 4 space-time dimensions. We are able to confirm andextend earlier conjectures by Yurtsever, and to deal with arbitraryaxisymmetric profiles, including an amusing case of ``fractal'' beams. Wefinally discuss some implications of our results in high-energy experiments andin cosmology.Comment: 17 pages Revtex, 1 figure, references adde
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