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Maximum efficiency of the collisional Penrose process

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-09-28 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider collision of two particles that move in the equatorial plane near a general stationary rotating axially symmetric extremal black hole. One of particles is critical (with fine-tuned parameters) and moves in the outward direction. The second particle (usual, not fine-tuned) comes from infinity. We examine the efficiency η\eta of the collisional Penrose process. There are two relevant cases here: (i) a particle falling into a black hole after collision is heavy, (ii) it has a finite mass. We show that the maximum of η\eta in case (ii) is less or equal to that in case (i). It is argued that for superheavy particles, the bound applies to nonequatorial motion as well. As an example, we analyze collision in the Kerr-Newman background. When the bound is the same for processes (i) and (ii), η=3\eta =3 for this metric. For the Kerr black hole, recent results in literature are reproduced.

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@article{arxiv.1607.00651,
  title  = {Maximum efficiency of the collisional Penrose process},
  author = {O. B. Zaslavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00651},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

18 pages. Typos corrected. Title somewhat modified according to suggestions of editors of PRD

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