Published May 1, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Geonium spectra·electron radius·cosmon

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA (USA)

Description

By means of a new, continuous version of the Stern-Gerlach effect the g-factor of the electron, an elementary particle as simple as a quark, has been measured to 4 parts in 1012. After QED corrections, this g-factor deviates from the Dirac value 2 by ∼10-10. A graph of corrected measured non-Dirac contributions |g-2| vs normalized radius for the three next larger stable charged near-Dirac fermions, proton, triton, and 3He nucleus, when applied to the electron, then suggests an rms radius R<10-20 cm. The graph further suggests a progression of ever smaller, heavier and less imperfect near-Dirac particles, until ''the'' elementary particle, the ''cosmon'' is reached. A lone ''cosmon/anticosmon'' pair, bound so tightly that its relativistic mass is zero, is assumed to have been formed from the metastable vacuum in a spontaneous quantum jump. Rapid disintegration of cosmon and anticosmon, each of immense mass, then formed the early universe in the big bang. No infinitely small point particles or singularities appear in our picture of a universe finite in the large and small

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
187
Journal Issue
1
Series
AIP Conf. Proc.
Journal Page Range
319-325
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPC

Conference

Title
8. international symposium on high energy spin physics.
Dates
12-17 Sep 1988.
Place
Minneapolis, MN (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
21021068
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
ELECTRONS; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LANDE FACTOR; MEASURING METHODS; SPIN FLIP
Descriptors DEC
DATA; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INFORMATION; LEPTONS; NUMERICAL DATA; SPECTRA

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-880983--.