Black hole with a scalar field as a particle accelerator

Abstract

© 2017 World Scientific Publishing CompanyWe consider stationary axially symmetric black holes with the background scalar field and test particles that can interact with this field directly. Then, particle collision near a black hole can lead to the unbounded energy (Formula presented.) in the center of mass frame (contrary to some recent claims in literature). This happens always if one of the particles is neutral whereas another one has nonzero scalar charge. Kinematically, two cases occur here. (i) A neutral particle approaches the horizon with the speed of light while the velocity of the charged one remains separated from it (this is direct analogue of the situation with collision of geodesic particles.). (ii) Both particles approach the horizon with the speed almost equal to that of light but with different rates. As a result, in both cases the relative velocity also approaches the speed of light, so that (Formula presented.) becomes unbounded. We consider also a case when the metric coefficient (Formula presented.) near a black hole. Then, overlap between the geometric factor and the presence of the scalar field opens additional scenarios in which unbounded energy (Formula presented.) is possible as well. We give a full list of possible scenarios of high-energy collisions for the situations considered.