Naked singularities as particle accelerators

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2010-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/1011.5550v1

Phys.Rev.D82:104049,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

4 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.104049

We investigate here the particle acceleration by naked singularities to arbitrarily high center of mass energies. Recently it has been suggested that black holes could be used as particle accelerators to probe the Planck scale physics. We show that the naked singularities serve the same purpose and probably would do better than their black hole counterparts. We focus on the scenario of a self-similar gravitational collapse starting from a regular initial data, leading to the formation of a globally naked singularity. It is seen that when particles moving along timelike geodesics interact and collide near the Cauchy horizon, the energy of collision in the center of mass frame will be arbitrarily high, thus offering a window to Planck scale physics.

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