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Comments on "Which is the Quantum Decay Law of Relativistic Particles?"

Quantum Physics 2015-07-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Results presented in a recent paper "Which is the Quantum Decay Law of Relativistic particles?", arXiv: 1412.3346v2 [quant--ph]], are analyzed. We show that approximations used therein to derive the main final formula for the survival probability of finding a moving unstable particle to be undecayed at time tt force this particle to almost stop moving, that is that, in fact, the derived formula is approximately valid only for γ1\gamma \cong 1, where γ=1/1β2\gamma = 1/\sqrt{1-\beta^{2}} and β=v/c\beta = v/c, or in other words, for the velocity v0v \simeq 0.

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@article{arxiv.1504.00794,
  title  = {Comments on "Which is the Quantum Decay Law of Relativistic Particles?"},
  author = {K. Urbanowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00794},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, additional analysis and comments added