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Maximal Efficiency of Collisional Penrose Process with Spinning Particles

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-09-26 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze collisional Penrose process of spinning test particles in an extreme Kerr black hole. We consider that two particles plunge into the black hole from infinity and collide near the black hole. For the collision of two massive particles, if the spins of particles are s10.01379μMs_1 \approx 0.01379\mu M and s20.2709μMs_2 \approx -0.2709\mu M, we obtain the maximal efficiency is about ηmax=(extracted energy)=(input energy)15.01\eta_{max} = (\text{extracted energy})=(\text{input energy}) \approx 15.01, which is more than twice as large as the case of the collision of non-spinning particles (ηmax6.32\eta_{max} \approx 6.32). We also evaluate the collision of a massless particle without spin and a massive particle with spin (Compton scattering), in which we find the maximal efficiency is ηmax26.85\eta_{max} \approx 26.85 when s20.2709μMs_2 \approx -0.2709\mu M, which should be compared with ηmax13.93\eta_{max} \approx 13.93 for the nonspinning case.

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@article{arxiv.1804.07264,
  title  = {Maximal Efficiency of Collisional Penrose Process with Spinning Particles},
  author = {Kei-ichi Maeda and Kazumasa Okabayashi and Hirotada Okawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07264},
  year   = {2018}
}

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17 pages, 1 table, 17 figures; published version