Signatures of particle collisions near extreme black holes
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| author | Gates, Delilah E. A. Hadar, Shahar |
| author_facet | Gates, Delilah E. A. Hadar, Shahar |
| contents | Finite-energy particles in free fall can collide with diverging center-of-mass energy near rapidly rotating black holes. What are the most salient observational signatures of this remarkable geometric effect? Here we revisit the problem from the standpoint of the near-horizon extreme Kerr geometry, where these collisions naturally take place. It is shown that the ingoing particle kinematics admits a simple, universal form. Given a scattering cross section, determination of emission properties is reduced to evaluation of particular integrals on the sky of a near-horizon orbiting particle. We subsequently apply this scheme to the example of single-photon bremsstrahlung, substantiating past results which indicate that ejected particles are observable, but their energies are bounded by the rest masses of the colliding particles. Our framework is readily applicable for any scattering process. |
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| spellingShingle | Signatures of particle collisions near extreme black holes Gates, Delilah E. A. Hadar, Shahar General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Finite-energy particles in free fall can collide with diverging center-of-mass energy near rapidly rotating black holes. What are the most salient observational signatures of this remarkable geometric effect? Here we revisit the problem from the standpoint of the near-horizon extreme Kerr geometry, where these collisions naturally take place. It is shown that the ingoing particle kinematics admits a simple, universal form. Given a scattering cross section, determination of emission properties is reduced to evaluation of particular integrals on the sky of a near-horizon orbiting particle. We subsequently apply this scheme to the example of single-photon bremsstrahlung, substantiating past results which indicate that ejected particles are observable, but their energies are bounded by the rest masses of the colliding particles. Our framework is readily applicable for any scattering process. |
| title | Signatures of particle collisions near extreme black holes |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04572 |