Quasi-Normal Modes of Brane-Localised Standard Model Fields II: Kerr Black Holes

TL;DR

This study analyzes the quasinormal modes of Standard Model fields on a brane in higher-dimensional rotating black holes, revealing how rotation and extra dimensions affect their lifetimes and oscillation qualities.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive numerical analysis of all Standard Model fields' quasinormal modes in Kerr brane-world black holes, exploring effects of rotation and dimensionality.

Findings

Faster black hole rotation prolongs field perturbation lifetimes.

Increasing extra dimensions shortens perturbation lifetimes.

The quality factor depends on field properties and black hole parameters.

Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the fundamental quasinormal modes of all Standard Model fields propagating on a brane embedded in a higher-dimensional rotating black hole spacetime. The equations of motion for fields with spin $s=0, 1/2$ and 1 propagating in the induced-on-the-brane background are solved numerically, and the dependence of their QN spectra on the black hole angular momentum and dimensionality of spacetime is investigated. It is found that the brane-localised field perturbations are longer-lived when the higher-dimensional black hole rotates faster, while an increase in the number of transverse-to-the-brane dimensions reduces their lifetime. Finally, the quality factor $Q$, that determines the best oscillator among the different field perturbations, is investigated and found to depend on properties of both the particular field studied (spin, multipole numbers) and the gravitational background (dimensionality, black hole angular momentum number).