Comment on "Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy"
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-12-14 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
It has been suggested that rotating black holes could serve as particle colliders with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy. Astrophysical limitations on the maximal spin, back-reaction effects and sensitivity to the initial conditions impose severe limits on the likelihood of such collisions.
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@article{arxiv.0911.2243,
title = {Comment on "Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy"},
author = {Emanuele Berti and Vitor Cardoso and Leonardo Gualtieri and Frans Pretorius and Ulrich Sperhake},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2243},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. v2: Published version