Spinning test particle in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Black Hole

TL;DR

This study explores the dynamics of spinning test particles around four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black holes, revealing unique potential minima and analyzing the influence of particle spin on stable orbits.

Contribution

It is the first to analyze spinning test particle motion in this novel black hole background, highlighting the effects of Gauss-Bonnet coupling on orbital stability.

Findings

Effective potential has two minima for certain Gauss-Bonnet parameters.

Spinning particle orbits can have two separate stable configurations.

Spin effects on innermost stable circular orbits are similar to general relativity.

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the motion of a classical spinning test particle orbiting around a static spherically symmetric black hole in a novel four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity [D. Glavan and C. Lin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)]. We find that the effective potential of a spinning test particle in the background of the black hole has two minima when the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter $\alpha$ is nearly in a special range $-6.1<\alpha/M^2<-2$ ($M$ is the mass of the black hole), which means such particle can be in two separate orbits with the same spin angular momentum and orbital angular momentum. We also investigate the innermost stable circular orbits of the spinning test particle and find that the effect of the particle spin on the the innermost stable circular is similar to the case of the four-dimensional black hole in general relativity.