Antimatter and Pseudotachyonic Relativity
Creators
- 1. Colegio Valsassina, Av. Teixeira da Mota, Quinta das Teresinhas, 1959-010 Lisboa (Portugal)
Description
A new conception of antiparticle is proposed as the subluminal '' image '' of a tachyonic homologous particle. After a first article on the subject, we begin by studying the pseudotachyonic transformation for energy, linear momentum and mass. We'll finally conclude that: · antiparticles must have negative energy (and massive ones also negative masses) and opposite electric charge; · antiphotons behave differently from photons; · this difference appears, for instance, in the Compton effect generalized to antiparticles; · the annihilation of colliding homologous particles and pair creation through colliding particles (this one yet an open problem) doesn't exactly fit in its standard description; · antimatter is characterized by negative absolute temperatures and the inversion of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics. (author)
Availability note (English)
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Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Old and New Concepts of Physics
- Journal Volume
- 4
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 507-546
- ISSN
- 1733-8026
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Poland
- Country of Input or Organization
- Poland
- INIS RN
- 40042068
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTIPARTICLES; COMPTON EFFECT; ELECTRIC CHARGES; ENERGY; LINEAR MOMENTUM; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; MASS; TACHYONS; TRANSFORMATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTIMATTER; BASIC INTERACTIONS; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; INTERACTIONS; MATTER; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SCATTERING; TRANSFORMATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 9 refs., 7 figs.