Does antimatter emit a new light?
Creators
- 1. Inst. for Basic Research, Palm Harbor, FL 34682 (United States)
Description
Contemporary theories of antimatter have a number of insufficiencies which stimulated the recent construction of the new isodual theory based on a certain anti-isomorphic map of all (classical and quantum) formulations of matter called isoduality. In this note we show that the isodual theory predicts that antimatter emits a new light, called isodual light, which can be distinguished from the ordinary light emitted by matter via gravitational interactions (only). In particular, the isodual theory predicts that all stable antiparticles such as the isodual photon, the positron and the antiproton experience antigravity in the field of matter (defined as the reversal of the sign of the curvature tensor). The antihydrogen atom is therefore predicted to: experience antigravity in the field of Earth; emit the isodual photon; and have the same spectroscopy of the hydrogen atom, although subjected to an anti-isomorphic isodual map. In this note we also show that the isodual theory predicts that bound states of elementary particle sand antiparticles (such as the positronium) experience ordinary gravitation in both fields of matter and antimatter, thus by passing known objections against antigravity. A number of intriguing and fundamental, open theoretical and experimental problems of 'the new physics of antimatter' are pointed out. 16 refs
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 18 p.
- Report number
- JINR-E--2-96-259
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- Country of Input or Organization
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)
- INIS RN
- 28015243
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTIMATTER; DIRAC EQUATION; GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; HILBERT SPACE; HYDROGEN; QUARKS; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- BANACH SPACE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTS; EQUATIONS; FERMIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATTER; NONMETALS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPACE; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- Submitted to Hyperfine Interactions and to the 'International Workshop on Antimatter Gravity and Antihydrogen Atom Spectroscopy', Sepino (IS), Italy, May 1996.