Ph.D. Candidate: Olivier Simon
Research Advisor: Savas Dimopoulos
Date: April 21, 2023
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Varian 355
Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98957396835
Zoom Password: email nickswan [at] stanford.edu (nickswan[at]stanford[dot]edu) for password
Title: Black Hole Superradiance of Self-Interacting Particles
Abstract: Spinning astrophysical black holes probe the existence of new light, weakly-coupled hidden sector particles (that may or may not also be the cosmological dark matter), through the phenomenon of black hole superradiance. In this talk, I will present my work on black hole superradiance and the plurality of phenomenological signatures that would accompany the superradiant process for a new scalar particle: the extraction of angular momentum from the black hole population and the emission of gravitational and scalar radiation, which altogether present a tremendous potential for discovery.