Stability of matter-antimatter molecules

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.04.014MaRDI QIDQ555642zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cheuk-Yin Wong, Teck-Ghee Lee

Publication date 25 July 2011

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5774

zbMATH Keywords

four-body problemmatter-antimatter moleculesparticle-antiparticle molecules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-body problems (70F05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Nuclear physics (81V35) Molecular physics (81V55)

Abstract: We examine the stability of matter-antimatter molecules by reducing the four-body problem into a simpler two-body problem with residual interactions. We find that matter-antimatter molecules with constituents (m1+, m2-, m2bar+, m1bar-) possess bound states if their constituent mass ratio m1/m2 is greater than about 4. This stability condition suggests that the binding of matter-antimatter molecules is a rather common phenomenon. We evaluate the binding energies and eigenstates of matter-antimatter molecules (mu+ e-)-(e+ mu-), (pi+ e-)-(e+ pi-), (K+ e-)-(e+ K-), (p e-)-(e+ pbar), (p mu-)-(mu+ pbar), and (K+ mu-)-(mu+ K-), which satisfy the stability condition. We estimate the molecular annihilation lifetimes in their s states.

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