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Rapidly rotating spacetimes and collisional super-Penrose process

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-05-12 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider generic axially symmetric rotating spacetimes and examine particle collisions in the ergoregion. The results are generic and agree with those obtained in the particular case of the rotating Teo wormhole in N. Tsukamoto and C. Bambi, Phys. Rev. D 91, 104040 (2015). It is shown that for sufficiently rapid rotation, the energy of a particle escaping to infinity can become arbitrary large (so-called super-Penrose process). Moreover, this energy is typically much larger than the center-of mass energy of colliding particles. In this sense the situation differs radically from that for collisions near black holes.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00844,
  title  = {Rapidly rotating spacetimes and collisional super-Penrose process},
  author = {O. B. Zaslavskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00844},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages. Sec. VII and VIII added. Final version

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