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arxiv: 1203.1729 · v1 · pith:UO4Y6J56new · submitted 2012-03-08 · 🌀 gr-qc

Hawking tunneling and boomerang behaviour of massive particles with E < m

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keywords particlesblackboomeranghawkinghorizonmassivemasslesstunneling
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Massive particles are radiated from black holes through the Hawking mechanism together with the more familiar radiation of massless particles. For $E >= m$, the emission rate is identical to the massless case. But $E < m$ particles can also tunnel across the horizon. A study of the dispersion relation and wave packet simulations show that their classical trajectory is similar to that of a boomerang. The tunneling formalism is used to calculate the probability for detecting such $E < m$ particles, for a Schwarzschild black hole of astrophysical size or in an analogue gravity experiment, as a function of the distance from the horizon and the energy of the particle.

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