Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy

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作者
Banados, Maximo [1 ,2 ]
Silk, Joseph [2 ]
West, Stephen M. [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Fac Fis, Santiago, Chile
[2] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[3] Univ London, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
[4] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
Gravitation - Stars - Black holes;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.111102
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We show that intermediate mass black holes conjectured to be the early precursors of supermassive black holes and surrounded by relic cold dark matter density spikes can act as particle accelerators with collisions, in principle, at arbitrarily high center-of-mass energies in the case of Kerr black holes. While the ejecta from such interactions will be highly redshifted, we may anticipate the possibility of a unique probe of Planck-scale physics.
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