A viable superluminal hypothesis: Tachyon emission from orthopositronium
dc.contributor.author | Skalsey, M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Conti, R. S. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Engbrecht, J. J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gidley, David W. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Vallery, R. S. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Zitzewitz, Paul W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-15T16:05:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-15T16:05:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000-01-19 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Skalsey, M.; Conti, R. S.; Engbrecht, J. J.; Gidley, D. W.; Vallery, R. S.; Zitzewitz, P. W. (2000). "A viable superluminal hypothesis: Tachyon emission from orthopositronium." AIP Conference Proceedings 504(1): 1119-1127. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/87640> | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | APCPCS-504-1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/87640 | |
dc.description.abstract | Tachyons are hypothetical particles that travel faster than the vacuum speed of light. Previous experiments have searched for, but have not found evidence of tachyons. Long-standing, anomalous measurements of the orthopositronium (o-Ps) decay rate are interpreted as evidence for two tachyons being occasionally emitted when o-Ps decays. Restricting the coupling of tachyon pairs to a single photon (no tachyon coupling to matter) yields a new theory where tachyons are only observed in o-Ps decay and not in the previous tachyon experiments. Combining the single photon coupling theory with all previous experiments predicts that these tachyons must deposit energy while traversing scintillator detectors. A new tachyon search experiment will use this energy loss prediction to attempt to find tachyons passing through the apparatus or set limits disproving the original o-Ps to tachyon hypothesis. Viewing an intense o-Ps source, a time-of-flight spectrometer uses the superluminal property of tachyons for identification. Several months of continuous data acquisition will be necessary to completely eliminate the o-Ps to tachyon hypothesis. © 2000 American Institute of Physics. | en_US |
dc.publisher | The American Institute of Physics | en_US |
dc.rights | © The American Institute of Physics | en_US |
dc.title | A viable superluminal hypothesis: Tachyon emission from orthopositronium | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87640/2/1119_1.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1063/1.1290916 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL FORUM - 2000 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Physics, Department of |
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