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Escape probability of the super-Penrose process

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-06-22 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a head-on collision of two massive particles that move in the equatorial plane of an extremal Kerr black hole, which results in the production of two massless particles. Focusing on a typical case, where both of the colliding particles have zero angular momenta, we show that a massless particle produced in such a collision can escape to infinity with arbitrarily large energy in the near-horizon limit of the collision point. Furthermore, if we assume that the emission of the produced massless particles is isotropic in the center-of-mass frame but confined to the equatorial plane, the escape probability of the produced massless particle approaches 5/125/12 and almost all escaping massless particles have arbitrarily large energy at infinity and an impact parameter approaching 2GM/c22GM/c^2, where MM is the mass of the black hole.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03022,
  title  = {Escape probability of the super-Penrose process},
  author = {Kota Ogasawara and Tomohiro Harada and Umpei Miyamoto and Takahisa Igata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03022},
  year   = {2017}
}

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5pages, 2figures

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