Pion-muon asymmetry revisited

DOI10.1007/S10773-007-9566-0zbMATH Open1140.81464arXiv0807.3182OpenAlexW2038096232MaRDI QIDQ930233FDOQ930233

Authors: W. A. Perkins 

Publication date: 23 June 2008

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Long ago an unexpected and unexplainable phenomena was observed. The distribution of muons from positive pion decay at rest was anisotropic with an excess in the backward direction relative to the direction of the proton beam from which the pions were created. Although this effect was observed by several different groups with pions produced by different means, the result was not accepted by the physics community, because it is in direct conflict with a large set of other experiments indicating that the pion is a pseudoscalar particle. It is possible to satisfy both sets of experiments if helicity-zero vector particles exist and the pion is such a particle. Helicity-zero vector particles have direction but no net spin. For the neutral pion to be a vector particle requires an additional modification to conventional theory as discussed herein. An experiment is proposed which can prove that the asymmetry in the distribution of muons from pion decay is a genuine physical effect because the asymmetry can be modified in a controllable manner. A positive result will also prove that the pion is NOT a pseudoscalar particle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3182

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zbMATH Keywords

Anisotropic muon distributionHelicity zero particlesPion-muon asymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35)

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