English

High energy particle collisions and geometry of horizon

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-09-07 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider collision of two geodesic particles near the horizon of such an axially symmetric black hole (rotating or static) that the metric coefficient gϕϕ0g_{\phi \phi }\rightarrow 0 there. It is shown that (both for regular and singular horizons) the energy in the centre of mass frame % E_{c.m.} is indefinitely large even without fine-tuning of particles' parameters. Kinematically, this is collision between two rapid particles that approach the horizon almost with the speed of light but at different angles. The latter is the reason why the relative velocity tends to that of light, hence to high Ec.m.E_{c.m.}. Our approach is model-independent. It relies on general properties of geometry and is insensitive to the details of material source that supports the geometies of the type under consideration. For several particular models (the stringy black hole, the Brans-Dicke analogue of the Schwarzschild metric and the Janis-Newman-Winicour one) we recover the results found in literature previously.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.03336,
  title  = {High energy particle collisions and geometry of horizon},
  author = {O. B. Zaslavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03336},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

14 pages. Presentation expanded, typos corrected. To appear in IJMP D