English

Gravitational interaction of antimatter

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2010-03-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Until now, there is no experimental evidence on the gravitational behaviour of antimatter. While we may be confident that antimatter attracts antimatter, we do not know anything on the interaction between matter and antimatter. We investigate this issue on theoretical grounds. Starting from the CPT invariance of physical laws, we transform matter into antimatter in the equations of both electrodynamics and gravitation. In the former case, the result is the well-known change of sign of the electric charge. In the latter, we find that the gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter is a mutual repulsion. This result supports cosmological models attempting to explain the Universe accelerated expansion in terms of a matter-antimatter symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1003.1635,
  title  = {Gravitational interaction of antimatter},
  author = {Massimo Villata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1635},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

5 pages, submitted to General Relativity and Gravitation on 2 February 2010

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