Abstract
Recently, Bañados, Silk, and West analyzed a collision of two particles near the horizon of the extremal Kerr black hole and demonstrated that the energy in the center-of-mass frame can be arbitrarily large provided the angular momentum of one of the colliding particles takes a special value. As is known, the vicinity of the extremal Kerr black hole horizon can be viewed as a complete vacuum spacetime in its own right. In this work, we consider a collision of two neutral particles within the context of the near horizon extremal Kerr geometry and demonstrate that the energy in the center-of-mass frame is finite for any admissible value of the particle parameters. An explanation of why the two approaches disagree on the Bañados-Silk-West effect is given.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 027505 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 88 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 26 Jul 2013 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)