Effeciency of higher dimensional black holes as particle accelerators

Abstract

The center-of-mass energy of two colliding particles could be arbitrarily high in the vicinity of event horizons of the extremal Myers-Perry black holes if the angular momentum of colliding particles is fine-tuned to the critical values. We investigate the maximum efficiency of two colliding particles in four and six dimensions. The efficiency of collision for two particles near the four-dimensional Kerr black holes is 130%. We show that the efficiency increases to 145% for collision in six dimensions. We also show that the region for the polar angle in which the particle can reach the high energy is larger when the dimension of space-time increases.