Quasinormal modes for spin-3/2 particles in N-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole space times

• Main Author: Harmsen, Gerhard Erwin
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Schwarzschild black holes; Black holes (Astronomy)
• Online Access: Harmsen, Gerhard Erwin (2016) Quasinormal modes for spin-3/2 particles in N-dimensional schwarzschild black hole space times, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/21023>; http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21023

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg, June 2016. === This dissertation will focus on spin-3/2 perturbations on N-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes, with the aim of calculating the numerical values for the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) and absorption probabilities associated with these perturbations. We begin by determining the spinor-vector eigenmodes of our particles on an (N-2)-dimensional spherical background. This allows us to separate out the angular part and radial part on our N-dimensional Schwarzschild metric. We then determine the equations of motion and e ective potential of our particles near the N-dimensional black hole. Using techniques such as the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin and Improved Asymptotic Iterative Method we determine our QNMs and absorption probabilities. We see that higher dimensional black holes emit QNMs with larger real and imaginary values, this would imply they emit higher energy particles but that these particles are highly dampened and therefore would be di cult to detect. The results of the QNMs make sense if we also consider the e ective potential surrounding our black holes with the potential function increasing with increasing number of dimensions.