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Acoustics of tachyon Fermi gas

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-19 v4 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a Fermi gas of free tachyons as a continuous medium and find whether it satisfies the causality condition. There is no stable tachyon matter with the particle density below critical value nTn_T and the Fermi momentum kF<32mk_F<\sqrt{\frac 32}m that depends on the tachyon mass mm. The pressure PP and energy density EE cannot be arbitrary small, but the situation P>EP>E is not forbidden. Existence of shock waves in tachyon gas is also discussed. At low density nT<n<3.45nTn_T<n<3.45n_T the tachyon matter remains stable but no shock wave do survive.

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@article{arxiv.1103.2276,
  title  = {Acoustics of tachyon Fermi gas},
  author = {Ernst Trojan and George V. Vlasov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2276},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures (color)