Year: 2018
Type: article
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 $|{g}_{tt\mathrm{min}}|$. 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.
Author: S. Krasnikov
Institution: Pulkovo Observatory
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G8949634117
OpenAlex ID: W2810209804