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Deflection of highly relativistic particles in a gravitational field

C Barrabès1 and P A Hogan2

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A novel approach to the calculation of the deflection of highly relativistic test particles in gravitational fields is described. We make use of the light-like boosts of the gravitational fields of the sources. Examples are given of the deflection of highly relativistic particles in the Schwarzschild and Kerr gravitational fields, in the field of a static, axially symmetric, multipole source and in the field of a cosmic string. The deflection of spinning particles is also discussed.


PACS

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

11.27.+d Extended classical solutions; cosmic strings, domain walls, texture

MSC

83C50 Electromagnetic fields

83C10 Equations of motion

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 2 (21 January 2004)

Received 26 September 2003

Published 4 December 2003



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