Phenomenology of ultralight bosons around compact objects: in-medium suppression

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Auteurs principaux: Cannizzaro, Enrico, Spieksma, Thomas F. M.
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author Cannizzaro, Enrico
Spieksma, Thomas F. M.
author_facet Cannizzaro, Enrico
Spieksma, Thomas F. M.
contents Mixing between ultralight bosons and the Standard Model photon may allow access to the hitherto invisible Universe. In the presence of plasma, photons are dressed with an effective mass which will influence the conversion between the two. We study this phenomenon, known as in-medium suppression, in the context of black hole physics. We consider both axion-photon mixing around charged black holes and dark photon-photon mixing around neutral black holes. We find that the presence of plasma indeed influences the conversion rate, possibly quenching it altogether for large plasma densities, and discuss implications for superradiance and observational signatures.
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spellingShingle Phenomenology of ultralight bosons around compact objects: in-medium suppression
Cannizzaro, Enrico
Spieksma, Thomas F. M.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Mixing between ultralight bosons and the Standard Model photon may allow access to the hitherto invisible Universe. In the presence of plasma, photons are dressed with an effective mass which will influence the conversion between the two. We study this phenomenon, known as in-medium suppression, in the context of black hole physics. We consider both axion-photon mixing around charged black holes and dark photon-photon mixing around neutral black holes. We find that the presence of plasma indeed influences the conversion rate, possibly quenching it altogether for large plasma densities, and discuss implications for superradiance and observational signatures.
title Phenomenology of ultralight bosons around compact objects: in-medium suppression
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17016