HEP-TH Wednesday Seminars

Larus Thorlacius (U. of Iceland) - Effective Field Theory Approach to 4D Hawking Emission

by Larus Thorlacius (U. of Iceland)

Europe/Stockholm
92110 (Ångströmlaboratoriet)

92110

Ångströmlaboratoriet

Description

Hawking radiation from 3+1-dimensional black holes is studied using effective 
field theory methods. The field equations that determine the time-dependent 
renormalised stress tensor are numerically solved for a black hole formed by 
an ingoing null shock wave. Hawking radiation is generated dynamically near 
the event horizon and propagates to future null infinity. The outgoing energy 
flux at future null infinity builds up from zero at early retarded times before the 
black hole forms and approaches a constant late-time value, consistent with 
analytic results for an Unruh state on a static Schwarzschild background of 
the same mass. Preliminary numerical solutions of the full semiclassical field 
equations, with back reaction included, show black hole formation and the 
onset of Hawking evaporation but the solutions break down before the black 
hole endpoint is reached.