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Schwarzschild-like wormholes as accelerators

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In this paper a wormhole W of an especially simple—and hence, hopefully, realistic—geometry is considered: it is static, spherically symmetric, its matter source is confined to a compact neighborhood of… Click to show full abstract

In this paper a wormhole W of an especially simple—and hence, hopefully, realistic—geometry is considered: it is static, spherically symmetric, its matter source is confined to a compact neighborhood of the throat, and the tt-component (in the Schwarzschild coordinates) of its metric has a single minimum. It is shown that such a wormhole is a “super accelerator,” i.e., a pair of free-falling particles—with fixed energies at infinity—collide with the center-of-mass energy growing unboundedly with |gttmin|. The existence of such super accelerators would make it possible to observe otherwise inaccessible phenomena. In contrast to the rotating Teo wormhole, considered by Tsukamoto and Bambi, W cannot accelerate the collision products on their way to a distant observer. On the other hand, in contrast to the black hole colliders, W does not need such acceleration in order to make those products detectable.

Keywords: wormholes accelerators; geometry; schwarzschild like; like wormholes

Journal Title: Physical Review D
Year Published: 2018

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