Non-extremal Kerr black holes as particle accelerators

作者:Gao, Sijie*; Zhong, Changchun
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2011, 84(4): 044006.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.044006

摘要

It has been shown that extremal Kerr black holes can be used as particle accelerators and arbitrarily high energy may be obtained near the event horizon. We study particle collisions near the event horizon (outer horizon)and Cauchy horizon (inner horizon)of a non-extremal Kerr black hole. First, we provide a general proof showing that particles cannot collide with arbitrarily high energies at the outer horizon. Second, we show that ultraenergetic collisions can occur near the inner horizon of a Kerr black hole with any spin parameter a.