Escape probability of the super-Penrose process
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 and almost all escaping massless particles have arbitrarily large energy at infinity and an impact parameter approaching , where 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