Maximal efficiency of the collisional Penrose process with a spinning particle. II. Collision with a particle on the innermost stable circular orbit

Abstract

Abstract We analyze the collisional Penrose process between a particle on the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) orbit around an extreme Kerr black hole and a particle impinging from infinity. We consider both cases with non-spinning and spinning particles. We evaluate the maximal efficiency, $\eta_{\text{max}}=(\text{extracted energy})/(\text{input energy})$, for the elastic collision of two massive particles and for the photoemission process, in which the ISCO particle will escape to infinity after a collision with a massless impinging particle. For non-spinning particles, the maximum efficiency is $\eta_{\text{max}} \approx 2.562$ for the elastic collision and $\eta_{\text{max}} \approx 7$ for the photoemission process. For spinning particles we obtain the maximal efficiency $\eta_{\text{max}} \approx 8.442$ for the elastic collision and $\eta_{\text{max}} \approx 12.54$ for the photoemission process.