Video URL
https://pirsa.org/23050083Grad Student Seminar with Nils Siemonsen
APA
Siemonsen, N.P. (2023). Grad Student Seminar with Nils Siemonsen. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/23050083
MLA
Siemonsen, Nils Peter. Grad Student Seminar with Nils Siemonsen. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May. 01, 2023, https://pirsa.org/23050083
BibTex
@misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:23050083, doi = {10.48660/23050083}, url = {https://pirsa.org/23050083}, author = {Siemonsen, Nils Peter}, keywords = {Other Physics}, language = {en}, title = {Grad Student Seminar with Nils Siemonsen}, publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics}, year = {2023}, month = {may}, note = {PIRSA:23050083 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/23050083}} }
Nils Peter Siemonsen Princeton University
Abstract
Nils Siemonsen, Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo
Dark Photon Superradiance
Gravitational and electromagnetic signatures of black hole superradiance are a unique probe of ultralight particles that are weakly-coupled to ordinary matter. Considering the lowest-order interactions one can write down for spin-1 dark photons, the kinetic mixing, a dark photon superradiance cloud sources a rotating visible electromagnetic field. A pair production cascade ensues in the superradiance cloud, resulting a turbulent plasma with strong electromagnetic emissions. The emission is expected to have a significant X-ray component and to potentially be periodic, with period set by the dark photon mass. The luminosity is comparable to the brightest X-ray sources in the Universe, allowing for searches at distances of up to hundreds of Mpc with existing telescopes. Therefore, multi-messenger search campaigns are sensitive to large parts of unexplored beyond the Standard Model parameter space.