Pure electric Penrose and super-Penrose processes in the flat space-time

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that in flat space-time with an electric potential, particle decay processes can produce debris with unbounded energy, analogous to black hole Penrose processes, revealing new energy extraction possibilities.

Contribution

It introduces a flat space-time analog of Penrose and super-Penrose processes, showing unbounded energy extraction without gravity, extending black hole physics concepts.

Findings

Energy of debris can exceed initial energy in flat space.

Efficiency of decay processes can be unbounded.

Analogies with black hole processes are established.

Abstract

Let a particle move in the flat space-time under the action of the electric potential. If it decays to two fragments, the energy of debris can be larger than the original energy and, moreover, the efficiency of such a process can be unbounded. This effect can be considered as a limit of the Denardo-Ruffini process near the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole when the gravitational constant and/or black hole mass tend to zero. There are scenarios in which the energy of debris at infinity is much larger than the initial one. Comparison with other close but distinct effects is discussed.