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Naked Singularity as Accelerator for Spinning Particle

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-12-27 v3

Abstract

When two particles collide at the horizon of a black hole and one of them satisfies some critical conditions, the relative velocity between them can be arbitrarily large, thus the energy of the center-of-mass will reach infinity. Such a process is called BSW mechanism which can accelerate a particle to arbitrarily high energy. There are also some studies showing that a Kerr naked singularity can be more qualified as a particle accelerator for arbitrarily high energy. Previous researchers mainly concentrate on geodesic motion of particles. In this paper, we will take spinning particles which won't move along a timelike geodesic and carry more parameters into our consideration. By employing the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equation, we will prove that for a spinning particle in hyper-extremal Reissner-Nordstrom or Kerr spacetime where exists a naked singularity at r=0r=0, its Effective Potential Veff=r˙2V_{eff}=-\dot{r}^2 must be able to reach zero within the interval 0<r<M0 < r < M, thus an ingoing particle will be able to turn back and then collide with another ingoing particle at r=Mr=M. If the spacetime is slightly{\bf slightly} hyper-extremal, the energy of center of mass EcmE_{cm} will be arbitrarily high.

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@article{arxiv.1710.09880,
  title  = {Naked Singularity as Accelerator for Spinning Particle},
  author = {Jincheng An},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09880},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, no figure

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