Published January 15, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Emergent flux from particle collisions near a Kerr black hole

  • 1. Facultad de Fisica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Av. Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Santiago (Chile)
  • 2. Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Physics Department and Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH (United Kingdom)
  • 4. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX (United Kingdom)

Description

The escape fraction at infinity is evaluated for massless particles produced in collisions of weakly interacting particles accreted into a density spike near the particle horizon of an extremal Kerr black hole, for the case of equatorial orbits. We compare with the Schwarzschild case, and argue that in the case of extremal black holes, redshifted signatures can be produced that could potentially explore the physics of particle collisions at center of mass energies that extend beyond those of any feasible terrestrial accelerator.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 023004-023004.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics