Particle acceleration by Majumdar-Papapetrou di-hole

DOI10.1007/S10714-014-1801-4zbMATH Open1305.83026arXiv1310.7200OpenAlexW3101624901MaRDI QIDQ481733FDOQ481733

Authors: Mandar Patil, Pankaj S. Joshi 

Publication date: 12 December 2014

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore the multi-black hole spacetimes from the perspective of the ultra-high energy particle collisions. Such a discussion is limited to the spacetimes containing a single black hole so far. We deal with the Majumdar-Papapetrou solution representing a system consisting of two identical black holes in the equilibrium. In order to identify the conditions suitable for the process of high energy collisions, we consider particles confined to move on the equatorial plane towards the axis of symmetry with the zero angular momentum. We consider collision between the particles moving in opposite directions at the location midway between the black holes on the axis. We show that the center of mass energy of collision between the particles increases with the decrease in the separation between the black holes and shows divergence in the limit where the separation goes to zero. We estimate the size of the region close to the central point on the equatorial plane where it would be possible to have high energy collisions and show that this region has a reasonably large spatial extent. We further explore the process of high energy collisions with the general geodesics with arbitrary angular momentum on the equatorial plane away from the central point. Although in this paper we deal with theMajumdar-Papapetrou spacetime which serves as a toy example representing multiple black holes, we speculate on the possibility that the ultra-high energy collisions would also occur in the more general setting like colliding black holes, when distance between the black holes is extremely small, which can in principle be verified in the numerical relativity simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7200

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesparticle accelerationblack hole binaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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• Ultra-high energy collisions in static space-times: single versus multi-black hole cases
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