In the large-charge limit, the allowed masses of electroweak W-boson clouds on magnetically charged black holes follow a compact WKB formula that matches numerical results at n=100 to better than one percent.
Black holes with electroweak hair
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We construct static and axially symmetric magnetically charged hairy black holes in the gravity-coupled Weinberg-Salam theory. Large black holes merge with the Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN) family, while the small ones are extremal and support a hair in the form of a ring-shaped electroweak condensate carrying superconducting W-currents and up to $22\%$ of the total magnetic charge. The extremal solutions are asymptotically RN with a mass {\it below} the total charge, $M<|Q|$, due to the negative Zeeman energy of the condensate interacting with the black hole magnetic field. Therefore, they cannot decay into RN black holes. As their charge increases, they show a phase transition when the horizon symmetry changes from spherical to oblate. At this point they have the mass typical for planetary size black holes of which $\approx 11\%$ is stored in the hair. Being obtained within a well-tested theory, our solutions are expected to be physically relevant.
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Electroweak clouds supported by magnetically charged black holes: Analytic treatment along the existence-line
In the large-charge limit, the allowed masses of electroweak W-boson clouds on magnetically charged black holes follow a compact WKB formula that matches numerical results at n=100 to better than one percent.