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Probing Positron Gravitation at HERA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-07-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

An equality of particle and antiparticle gravitational interactions holds in general relativity and is supported by indirect observations. Here I develop a method based on high energy Compton scattering to measure the gravitational interaction of accelerated charged particles. Within that formalism the Compton spectra measured at HERA rule out the positron's anti-gravity and hint for a positron's 1.3(0.2)\% weaker coupling to the gravitational field relative to an electron.

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@article{arxiv.1507.02589,
  title  = {Probing Positron Gravitation at HERA},
  author = {Vahagn Gharibyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02589},
  year   = {2015}
}
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