Collisional Penrose process of BTZ black holes

Abstract

The Penrose process in the vicinity of an extremal Ban\~ados-Teitelboim-Zanelli(BTZ) black hole is studied. Due to the existence of negative cosmological constant, only massless particles could escape to infinity. Hence we analyse the Penrose process by one massless particle collides with another massive particle near the horizon of BTZ black holes. Calculations of the maximum energy extraction efficiency of this process is carried out for both spinless and spinning particles. Our results show that the spinning particle have a higher energy extraction efficiency than the spinless particle. Moreover, our calculation also indicates that the maximum energy extraction efficiency is independent of the value of the cosmological constant of BTZ black holes.