Yu.L. Ratis. On the existence of long-living exoatom “neutroneum”

Автор: Yuri L. Ratis.

Institute of power engineering for the special applications. E-mail: ratis@rambler.ru.

Title: On the existence of long-living exoatom “neutroneum”.

Abstract

We demonstrate that exoatom “neutroneum” is the low-laying extremely narrow resonance in the elastic electron-proton scattering. This resonance is caused by the weak interaction and corresponds to the transition from initial state of the system «electron + proton» into the virtual neutron-neutrino pair. Due to its small width and amplitude, this resonance cannot be registered in the direct ep-scattering experiment. The third particle at the collision of the electron and the atom of hydrogen results a three-body effect. The cross-section of the neutroneum creation contains the two-particle propagator of the electron and proton (i.e., excited hydrogen) under the integral. Therefore the width of the electroweak eH-resonance at colliding the electron and the hydrogen atom is by fourteen orders more than the width of the similar resonance in elastic ep-scattering. Its properties can be investigated experimentally. The size, lifetime, threshold and cross-section of the neutroneum creation are estimated. It is shown that the threshold energy of the neutroneum creation is considerably smaller than the threshold energy of the thermonuclear reactions. It means that neutron-like nuclear-active particles can be created at ultralow energies, and, hence, can induce nuclear reactions similar to those, which are caused by neutrons, in all cases, when nuclear reactions with charged particles are forbidden by a high Coulomb barrier.

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Reviews:

1. V.G. Volostnikov. Review on the article of Yu.L. Ratis “On the existence of long-living exoatom “neutroneum”” (In Russian).

2. Yu.P. Rybakov. Review on the article of Yu.L. Ratis “On the existence of long-living exoatom “neutroneum”” (In Russian).

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