High Energy Black Hole Collisions in Higher Dimensions

by Dr William Cook (Princeton U)

Thursday 19 Dec 2019, 16:15 → 17:15 Europe/Berlin

Abbeanum/Ground floor-HS 2 - Hörsaal 2 (TPI, FSU Jena)

In higher dimensional braneworld models the fundamental Planck scale can be tuned down to the order of a TeV. In such models high energy particle collisions are proposed to lead to black hole formation. To investigate the energy loss through gravitational radiation in such interactions we use numerical relativity to simulate the high energy collisions of boosted black holes in more than 4 spacetime dimensions. In this talk I will review the use of numerical relativity to investigate higher dimensional black hole spacetimes, and present results on black hole collisions from rest, black hole inspirals, and an investigation into boosted head on black hole collisions, as the black hole velocity approaches the speed of light.