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« Black holes with electroweak hair »

Mikhail Volkov
Univ. Tours (Tours, France)

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 $\approx 11\%$ are stored in the hair.
Being obtained within a well-tested theory, our solutions are expected to be physically relevant.
lundi 16 décembre 2024 - 11:00
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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