Quasi-normal Modes for Spin-3/2 Fields

With the Large Hadron Collider already able to produce collisions with an energy of 8 TeV, the formation of higher dimensional black holes may soon be possible. In order to determine if we are detecting these higher dimensional black holes we need to have a theoretical understanding of what the signatures of such black holes could be. As such we shall discuss quasi-normal modes (QNMs) for spin-3/2 fields as they travel through a black hole background. We will begin by studying possible QNMs for N-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes and extend by looking at N-dimensional Kerr black holes. We will use the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation to determine the QNMs for the two types of black holes described above. (paper)