Fermion absorption cross section of a Schwarzschild black hole

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2005-03-04

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0503019v1

Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 124020

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.124020

We study the absorption of massive spin-half particles by a small Schwarzschild black hole by numerically solving the single-particle Dirac equation in Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates. We calculate the absorption cross section for a range of gravitational couplings Mm/m_P^2 and incident particle energies E. At high couplings, where the Schwarzschild radius R_S is much greater than the wavelength lambda, we find that the cross section approaches the classical result for a point particle. At intermediate couplings we find oscillations around the classical limit whose precise form depends on the particle mass. These oscillations give quantum violations of the equivalence principle. At high energies the cross section converges on the geometric-optics value of 27 \pi R_S^2/4, and at low energies we find agreement with an approximation derived by Unruh. When the hole is much smaller than the particle wavelength we confirm that the minimum possible cross section approaches \pi R_S^2/2.

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