Scattering of Dirac Waves off Kerr Black Holes
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Chandrasekhar separated the Dirac equation for spinning and massive particles in Kerr geometry into radial and angular parts. Here we solve the complete wave equation and find out how the Dirac wave scatters off Kerr black holes. The eigenfunctions, eigenvalues and reflection and transmission co-efficients are computed. We compare the solutions with several parameters to show how a spinning black hole distinguishes mass and energy of incoming waves. Very close to the horizon the solutions become independent of the particle parameters indicating an universality of the behaviour.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0007277,
title = {Scattering of Dirac Waves off Kerr Black Holes},
author = {Sandip K. Chakrabarti and Banibrata Mukhopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0007277},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 Latex pages and 7 Figures; MNRAS style; Accepted for Publication in MNRAS