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Nonclassical behavior of moving relativistic unstable particles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Experiment Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the survival probability of moving relativistic unstable particles with definite momentum p0\vec{p} \neq 0. The amplitude of the survival probability of these particles is calculated using its integral representation. We found decay curves of such particles for the quantum mechanical models considered. These model studies show that late time deviations of the survival probability of these particles from the exponential form of the decay law, that is the transition times region between exponential and non-expo\-nen\-tial form of the survival probability, should occur much earlier than it follows from the classical standard approach resolving itself into replacing time tt by t/γt/\gamma (where γ\gamma is the relativistic Lorentz factor) in the formula for the survival probability and that the survival probabilities should tend to zero as tt\rightarrow \infty much slower than one would expect using classical time dilation relation. Here we show also that for some physically admissible models of unstable states the computed decay curves of the moving particles have fluctuating form at relatively short times including times of order of the lifetime.

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@article{arxiv.1506.05076,
  title  = {Nonclassical behavior of moving relativistic unstable particles},
  author = {K. Urbanowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.05076},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

24 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX2e, new sections and comments added, Acta Physica Polonica B - in press

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