Collisions of spinning massive particles in a Schwarzschild background

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/10/105014zbMATH Open1338.83095arXiv1510.01223OpenAlexW3102910267MaRDI QIDQ2811474FDOQ2811474

Máximo Banados, Cristóbal Armaza, Benjamin Koch

Publication date: 10 June 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that the center-of-mass energy of the collision of two massive particles following geodesics around a black hole presents a maximum. The maximum energy increases when the black hole is endowed with spin, and for a maximally rotating hole this energy blows up, offering, in principle, a unique probe of fundamental physics. This work extends the latter studies by considering that the colliding particles possess intrinsic angular momentum (spin), described by the Hanson-Regge-Hojman theory of spinning particles. By analyzing planar trajectories of spinning particles around non-rotating black holes, a significant increase of the invariant collision energy is found. Radial turning points, causality constraints, and limitations of the theory are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01223

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsSchwarzschild black holespinning top

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57)

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