PIRSA:10030002

Ultra Relativistic Particle Collisions

APA

Choptuik, M. (2010). Ultra Relativistic Particle Collisions. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/10030002

MLA

Choptuik, Matthew. Ultra Relativistic Particle Collisions. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Mar. 17, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10030002

BibTex

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:10030002,
            doi = {10.48660/10030002},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10030002},
            author = {Choptuik, Matthew},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Ultra Relativistic Particle Collisions},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2010},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:10030002 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/10030002}}
          }
          

Matthew Choptuik University of British Columbia

Talk numberPIRSA:10030002
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series

Abstract

I will present recent numerical results obtained in collaboration with Frans Pretorius that describe head-on collisions of two solitons coupled to the general relativistic gravitational field and boosted to ultra relativistic energies. The calculations show, for the first time, that at sufficiently high energies such a collision leads to black hole formation, consistent with hoop conjecture arguments. This implies that the non-linear gravitational interaction between the kinetic energy of the solitons results in gravitational collapse, and the arguments for black hole formation in super-Planck scale particle collisions are robust. I will also speculate on the nature of the threshold of black hole formation in the model.