Comment on "Kerr black holes as particle accelerators to arbitrarily high energy".

نویسندگان

  • Emanuele Berti
  • Vitor Cardoso
  • Leonardo Gualtieri
  • Frans Pretorius
  • Ulrich Sperhake
چکیده

Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri, Frans Pretorius, Ulrich Sperhake 1 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA 3 CENTRA, Departamento. de F́ısica, Instituto. Superior. Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049 Lisboa, Portugal 4 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Sapienza” & Sezione INFN Roma1, P.A. Moro 5, 00185, Roma, Italy and 5 Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 103 23  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009