Phys. Rev. D 70, 104026 (2004) [4 pages]Black holes from colliding wavepacketsReceived 21 September 2004; published 23 November 2004 Arguments for black hole formation in collisions of high-energy particles have rested on the emergence of a closed trapped surface in the classical geometry of two colliding Aichelburg-Sexl solutions. Recent analysis has, however, shown that curvatures and quantum fluctuations are large on this apparent horizon, potentially invalidating a semiclassical analysis. We show that this problem is an artifact of the unphysical classical point-particle limit: for a particle described by a quantum wavepacket, or for a continuous matter distribution, trapped surfaces indeed form in a controlled regime. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104026
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104026
PACS:
04.70.–s, 04.60.–m
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