Rotating Hayward's regular black hole as particle accelerator

Recently, Ban\~{a}dos, Silk and West (BSW) demonstrated that the extremal Kerr black hole can act as a particle accelerator with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy ($E_{CM}$) when the collision takes place near the horizon. The rotating Hayward's regular black hole, apart from Mass ($M$) and angular momentum ($a$), has a new parameter $g$ ($g>0$ is a constant) that provides a deviation from the Kerr black hole. We demonstrate that for each $g$, with $M=1$, there exist critical $a_{E}$ and $r_{H}^{E}$, which corresponds to a regular extremal black hole with degenerate horizon, and $a_{E}$ decreases and $r_{H}^{E}$ increases with increase in $g$. While $a<a_{E}$ describe a regular non-extremal black hole with outer and inner horizons. We apply BSW process to the rotating Hayward's regular black hole, for different $g$, and demonstrate numerically that $E_{CM}$ diverges in the vicinity of the horizon for the extremal cases, thereby suggesting that a rotating regular black hole can also act as a particle accelerator and thus in turn may provide a suitable framework for Plank-scale physics. For a non-extremal case, there always exist a finite upper bound of $E_{CM}$, which increases with deviation parameter $g$.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables, accepted to be published in Journal of High Energy Physic

Shadows of rotating five-dimensional charged EMCS black holes

Higher dimensional theories admit astrophysical objects like supermassive black holes, which are rather different from standard ones, and their gravitational lensing features deviate from general relativity. It is well known that a black hole shadow is a dark region due to the falling geodesics of photons into the black hole and, if detected, a black hole shadow could be used to determine which theory of gravity is consistent with observations. Measurements of the shadow sizes around the black holes can help to evaluate various parameters of the black hole metric. We study the shapes of the shadow cast by the rotating five-dimensional charged Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons (EMCS) black holes, which is characterized by the four parameters, i.e., mass, two spins, and charge, in which the spin parameters are set equal. We integrate the null geodesic equations and derive an analytical formula for the shadow of the five-dimensional EMCS black hole, in turn, to show that size of black hole shadow is affected due to charge as well as spin. The shadow is a dark zone covered by a deformed circle, and the size of the shadow decreases with an increase in the charge $q$ when compared with the five-dimensional Myers-Perry black hole. Interestingly, the distortion increases with charge $q$. The effect of these parameters on the shape and size of the naked singularity shadow of five-dimensional EMCS black hole is also discussed.Comment: 27 pages, 9 figures, matches with published versio

Distinguishing rotating naked singularities from Kerr-like wormholes by their deflection angles of massive particles

We study the gravitational deflection of relativistic massive particles by Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) spacetimes (also known as a rotating source with a surface-like naked singularity), and a rotating Kerr-like wormholes. Based on the recent article [K. Jusufi, Phys. Rev. D 98, 064017 (2018)], we extend some of these results by exploring the effects of naked singularity and Kerr-like objects on the deflection of particles. We start by introducing coordinate transformation leading to an isotropic line element which gives the refraction index of light for the corresponding optical medias. On the other hand, the refraction index for massive particles is found by considering those particles as a de Broglie wave packets. To this end, we apply the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to the isotropic optical metrics to find the deflection angles. Our analysis shows that, in the case of the JNW spacetime the deflection angle is affected by the parameter $0<\gamma<1$, similarly, we find that the deformation parameter $\lambda$ affects the deflection angle in the case of Kerr-like wormholes. In addition to that, we presented a detailed analysis of the deflection angle by means of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation that lead to the same results. As a special case of our results the deflection angle of light is recovered. Finally, we point out that the deflection of particles by Kerr-like wormholes is stronger compared to JNW spacetime, in particular this difference can be used to shed some light from observational point of view in order to distinguish the two spacetimes.Comment: 24 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in European Physical Journal