Falls, Kevin, Litim, Daniel F and Raghuraman, Aarti (2012) Black holes and asymptotically safe gravity. International Journal of Modern Physics A (ijmpa), 27 (5). p. 1250019. ISSN 0217-751X

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Abstract

Quantum gravitational corrections to black holes are studied in four and higher dimensions using a renormalisation group improvement of the metric. The quantum effects are worked out in detail for asymptotically safe gravity, where the short distance physics is characterized by a non-trivial fixed point of the gravitational coupling. We find that a weakening of gravity implies a decrease of the event horizon, and the existence of a Planck-size black hole remnant with vanishing temperature and vanishing heat capacity. The absence of curvature singularities is generic and discussed together with the conformal structure and the Penrose diagram of asymptotically safe black holes. The production cross section of mini-black holes in energetic particle collisions, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider, is analysed within low-scale quantum gravity models. Quantum gravity corrections imply that cross sections display a threshold, are suppressed in the Planckian, and reproduce the semi-classical result in the deep trans-Planckian region. Further implications are discussed

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics Q Science > QC Physics > QC0170 Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter Including molecular physics, relativity, quantum theory, and solid state physics Q Science > QC Physics > QC0770 Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
Depositing User:	Daniel Litim
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2012 09:09
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2012 09:09
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/26045

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