Observations on unstable quantons, hyperplane dependence and quantum fields
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DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2011.02.004zbMATH Open1228.81065arXiv0903.1831OpenAlexW2166263894MaRDI QIDQ652822FDOQ652822
Authors: Gordon N. Fleming 
Publication date: 17 December 2011
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: There is persistent heterodoxy in the physics literature concerning the proper treatment of those quantons that are unstable against spontaneous decay. Following a brief litany of this heterodoxy, I develop some of the consequences of assuming that such quantons can exist, undecayed and isolated, at definite times and that their treatment can be carried out within a standard quantum theoretic state space. This assumption requires hyperplane dependence for the unstable quanton states and leads to clarification of some recent results concerning deviations from relativistic time dilation of decay lifetimes. In the course of the discussion I make some observations on the relationship of unstable quantons to quantum fields.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1831
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