Greybody factors for brane scalar fields in a rotating black hole background

Abstract

We study the evaporation of ($4+n$)-dimensional rotating black holes into scalar degrees of freedom on the brane. We calculate the corresponding absorption probabilities and cross sections obtaining analytic solutions in the low-energy regime and compare the derived analytic expressions to numerical results, with very good agreement. We then consider the high-energy regime, construct an analytic high-energy solution to the scalar-field equation by employing a new method, and calculate the absorption probability and cross section for this energy regime, finding again a very good agreement with the exact numerical results. We also determine the high-energy asymptotic value of the total cross section and compare it to the analytic results derived from the application of the geometrical optics limit.