Published October 2002
| Version v1
Journal article
Mirror symmetry, chiral symmetry breaking, and antihydrogen states in natural atomic H
Creators
- 1. Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S30, B-9000, Ghent (Belgium)
Description
Molecular band spectra reveal a left-right symmetry for atoms [Van Hooydonk, Spectrochim. Acta A 56, 2273 (2000)]. Intra-atomic left-right symmetry points to antiatom states and, to make sense, this must also show in line spectra. H Lyman ns singlets show a mirror plane at quantum number n0=(1/2)π. A symmetry-breaking oscillator (1-(1/2)π/n)2 means that some of these n states are antihydrogenic. This view runs ahead of CERN's antiproton decelerator project on antihydrogen
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.044103;
- arXiv
- arXiv:physics/0501144v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 66
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 044103-044103.2
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36044931
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTIPROTONS; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; HADRONIC ATOMS; HYDROGEN; MIRRORS; OSCILLATORS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SYMMETRY BREAKING
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTIBARYONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTINUCLEI; ANTINUCLEONS; ANTIPARTICLES; ATOMS; BARYONS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; EQUIPMENT; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; MATTER; NONMETALS; NUCLEI; NUCLEONS; PROTONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2002 The American Physical Society