Quantum Black Holes [electronic resource] / by Xavier Calmet, Bernard Carr, Elizabeth Winstanley.
By: Calmet, Xavier [author.].
Contributor(s): Carr, Bernard [author.] | Winstanley, Elizabeth [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Physics: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: XI, 104 p. 24 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642389399.Subject(s): Physics | Physics | Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory | Particle and Nuclear Physics | CosmologyDDC classification: 530.1 Online resources: Click here to access online Introduction -- Black Holes in General Relativity.- Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Evaporation -- Primordial Black Holes.- Black Hole Formation in High Energy Particle Collisions -- Black Holes and Low Scale Quantum Gravity -- Conclusions.
Written by foremost experts, this short book gives a clear description of the physics of quantum black holes. The reader will learn about quantum black holes in four and higher dimensions, primordial black holes, the production of black holes in high energy particle collisions, Hawking radiation, black holes in models of low scale quantum gravity and quantum gravitational aspects of black holes.
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