A hyperphoton is a hypothetical particle[1] with a very low mass and spin equal to one. The hypothesis of the existence of hyperphotons is an explanation for the violation of CP-invariance in the two-pion decay of a long-lived neutral kaon .[2][3][4] According to this hypothesis, there is a long-range very weak field generated by hypercharged particles (for example, baryons), whose quantum carrier is a hyperphoton, which acts differently on and mesons whose hypercharges differ in signs.
Criticism of the hypothesis
editThis hypothesis contradicts a number of experimental data and theoretical principles of physics. Thus, it follows that the probability of two-photon decay of a long-lived neutral kaon is proportional to the square of the kaon energy in the laboratory reference frame, which does not agree with experimental data on its independence from the kaon energy.[5] The experimental data also contradict such a consequence of this hypothesis as a very high probability of hyperphoton emission during the decay of a long-lived neutral kaon[6] and when a charged kaon decays into a one charged pion.[7] This hypothesis implicitly uses the action at a distance rejected by modern physics. In addition, it implies a violation of the equivalence principle.[8]
See also
editReferences
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- ^ Bell, J. S.; Perring, J. K. (1964-09-07). "2π Decay of the Meson". Physical Review Letters. 13 (10): 348–349. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..348B. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.13.348. ISSN 0031-9007.
- ^ Phillips, Peter R. (1965-07-26). "New Tests for the Invariance of the Vacuum State Under the Lorentz Group". Physical Review. 139 (2B): B491–B494. Bibcode:1965PhRv..139..491P. doi:10.1103/physrev.139.b491. ISSN 0031-899X.
- ^ Okun, Lev B. (1966). "Нарушение CP-инвариантности" [The violation of CP invariance]. Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk (in Russian). 89 (8): 603–646. doi:10.3367/ufnr.0089.196608d.0603. ISSN 0042-1294.
- ^ Weinberg, Steven (1964-10-12). "Do Hyperphotons Exist?". Physical Review Letters. 13 (15): 495–497. Bibcode:1964PhRvL..13..495W. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.13.495. ISSN 0031-9007.
- ^ Bouchiat, C.; Iliopoulos, J. (1986). "On the possible existence of a light vector meson coupled to the hypercharge current". Physics Letters B. 169 (4): 447–449. Bibcode:1986PhLB..169..447B. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90388-6. ISSN 0370-2693.
- ^ Любошиц В.Л., Оконов Э.О., Подгорецкий М.И. Галактическое поле гиперзарядов и распад долгоживущих нейтральных K-мезонов на два пи-мезона Archived 2022-01-29 at the Wayback Machine // Ядерная физика 1, 490 (1965).
