[5] viXra:2301.0150 [pdf] submitted on 2023-01-28 03:18:18
Authors: Wanpeng Tan
Comments: 31 Pages. an invited review paper, https://www.wanpengtan.com/smm/
This paper reviews the puzzles in modern neutron lifetime measurements and related unitarity issues in the CKM matrix. It is not a comprehensive and unbiased compilation of all historic data and studies, but rather a focus on compelling evidence leading to new physics. In particular, the largely overlooked nuances of different techniques applied in material and magnetic trap experiments are clarified. Further detailed analysis shows that the ``beam'' approach of neutron lifetime measurements is likely to give the ``true'' $beta$-decay lifetime, while discrepancies in ``bottle'' measurements indicate new physics at play. The most feasible solution to these puzzles is a newly proposed ordinary-mirror neutron ($n-n'$) oscillation model under the framework of mirror matter theory. This phenomenological model is reviewed and introduced, and its explanations of the neutron lifetime anomaly and possible non-unitarity of the CKM matrix are presented. Most importantly, various new experimental proposals, especially lifetime measurements with smallslash narrow magnetic traps or under super-strong magnetic fields, are discussed in order to test the surprisingly large anomalous signals that are uniquely predicted by this new $n-n'$ oscillation model.
Category: Nuclear and Atomic Physics
[4] viXra:2301.0092 [pdf] submitted on 2023-01-19 01:54:26
Authors: Leonardo Rubino
Comments: 24 Pages.
Here is a simple explanation of the shape of an atom. Not so simple, but as simple as onecan.
Category: Nuclear and Atomic Physics
[3] viXra:2301.0078 [pdf] submitted on 2023-01-16 20:55:18
Authors: Brian Strom
Comments: 6 Pages.
"Anti-matter" is one of the contradictions in Basic Physics. In this paper, the mathematical and theoretical contradictions for anti-matter are explored. The conclusion is that there is no mathematical rationale for anti-matter. For particles in the applied energy field of a particle collider, movement will be dependent on the Rotational Energy Field or "spin" of the particle, not on the fictional "charge". The conclusion is that the behavior of different particles is not dependent on fictional "anti-matter".
Category: Nuclear and Atomic Physics
[2] viXra:2301.0056 [pdf] submitted on 2023-01-10 20:37:02
Authors: Jozsef Garai
Comments: 10 Pages.
The stability of an electron is affected by electrostatic self-repulsion of the charge, attraction of opposite charge/s, Casimir effect, kinetic, and zero-point energies. Investigating the energy balance of these affects it can be shown that the point charge electron loses its stability at the Bohr`s radius and forms a static surface charge around the proton. First principle calculations also show that for individual atoms the formed surface charge around the nucleus is stable as long as the absorbed destabilizing energies are below the one-dimensional Casimir energy. Thus in neutral atoms the Casimir effect stabilizes the surface charge electron shell. For individual atoms the Casimir effect is active on the entire surface area of the electron shell. In this case the one-dimensional Casimir energy should be equivalent with the ionization energy. If the neighboring atoms shielding the Casimir effect then the energy required removing an electron should be reduced in proportion to the active surface area of the atom. On the surface of a metal about half of the atomic surface is shielded by the neighboring atoms. Thus the energy requiring removing an electron should be half of the ionization energy. In the bulk of the metal, where the Casimir effect is completely shielded by the neighboring atoms, the electron shell should be unstable. These predictions are consistent with experiments, since the ionization energy is the same as the one-dimensional Casimir energy, the measured energies of the work function are about half of the ionization energy, and the band gaps of metals are zero.
Category: Nuclear and Atomic Physics
[1] viXra:2301.0008 [pdf] submitted on 2023-01-03 00:08:07
Authors: Brian Strom
Comments: 10 Pages.
In earlier papers, the fundamental principles of Physics have been reviewed in the analysis of the results of basic experiments on Atomic Spectra and Potential Energy Fields (presently called magnetic and electro-magnetic fields). In all analyses, there has been no need for the concept of "charge". The movement and behavior of electrons can be explained totally in terms of Potential Energy, Potential Gradient and Potential Energy Fields. The conclusion is that "charge" is a fictitious creation.
Category: Nuclear and Atomic Physics