Lorentz Violation and Alpha-Decay
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-08 v1
Abstract
Relating the effective Lorentz violation coefficients for composite particles to the coefficients for their constituent fields is a challenging problem. We calculate the Lorentz violation coefficients relevant to the dynamics of an alpha-particle in terms of proton and neutron coefficients. The alpha-particle coefficients would lead to anisotropies in the alpha-decays of nuclei, and because the decay process involves quantum tunneling, the effects of any Lorentz violations could be exponentially enhanced.
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@article{arxiv.0812.2236,
title = {Lorentz Violation and Alpha-Decay},
author = {Brett Altschul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2236},
year = {2010}
}
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16 pages