Physics Letters B (Mar 2018)

Collisional Penrose process with spinning particles

  • Sajal Mukherjee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.003
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 778, no. C
pp. 54 – 59

Abstract

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In this article, we have investigated collisional Penrose process (CPP) using spinning particles in a Kerr spacetime. Recent studies have shown that the collision between two spinning particles can produce a significantly high energy in the center of mass frame. Here, we explicitly compute the energy extraction and efficiency as measured by an observer at infinity. We consider the colliding particles as well as the escaping particles may contain spins. It has been shown that the energy extraction is larger than the non-spinning case and also their possibility to escape to infinity is wider than the geodesics.