Tomaschitz, R. (1999). Interaction of tachyons with matter, International Journal of Modern Physics A 14, 5137-5157, DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X99002438
Abstract (WorldSciNet, CDS, SAO/NASA ADS, Zbl 0943.83010)
A new interaction mechanism of superluminal particles with matter is suggested. Tachyons are described by a real Proca field with negative mass square, coupled to a current of subluminal matter. The potential of a static point source in this field theory is a damped periodic function with 1/r-decay. We treat this potential as a perturbation of the Coulomb potential, and study its effects on cross-sections and energy levels. In the limit of large impact parameter, the periodicity of the potential has a pronounced effect on the classical cross-section, which gets singular at the accumulating extrema of the scattering angle. In this limit we define the cross-section wave mechanically, by semiclassical rainbow scattering. The impact of the tachyon potential on the energy levels of hydrogen and hydrogenic ions is calculated by means of Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization. Estimates for the tachyon mass (3 keV) and the coupling constant of the tachyon potential are derived on the basis of high-precision Lamb shift measurements.
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0943.83010
Tomaschitz, Roman
Interaction of tachyons with matter
[J] Int.
J. Mod. Phys. A 14, No.32, 5137-5157 (1999). ISSN 0217-751X
Keywords: tachyons; real Proca field; Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization
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Interaction of Tachyons with Matter |
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Tomaschitz, Roman |
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AA(Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagami-yama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, , Japan; roman@fusion.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp) |
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International Journal of Modern Physics A, Volume 14, Issue 32, pp. 5137-5157 (1999). (IJMPA Homepage) |
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description: Roman Tomaschitz (1999) Interaction of tachyons with matter, International Journal of Modern Physics A 14, 5137.
Keywords: superluminal radiation fields, Proca equation, real Proca fields with negative mass-square, tachyon mass and tachyonic fine-structure constant, tachyonic wave fields coupled to subluminal currents by minimal substitution, effect of the tachyon potential on Lamb shifts in hydrogenic ions, ground-state Lamb shifts, tachyonic Ly-α transitions in hydrogen-like ions, Lyman-alpha, rainbow scattering in a tachyon potential, Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization, tachyonic Einstein coefficients, stimulated and spontaneous tachyon emission, tachyonic black-body radiation
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