Questions tagged [antimatter]
Analogous to matter, but with charge of the particles opposite to their ordinary matter counterparts.
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What happens if matter particle and antimatter particle both carry no charge were to collide elastically?
I read that particle carrying charge is able to interact with photon so that when electron and positron collides they may be converted into pure photons, then what about neutron-antineutron collision? ...
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Possible reactions due to antiproton-proton collisions
When an antiproton collides with a proton, then "all" reactions/channels are possible, right? Only constrained by the used energy and sure, some channels are more likely than others but in principle, ...
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What yeilds greater energy an antimatter matter reaction or zero point energy? [closed]
Theoretically speaking what has more energy per mass; an antimatter matter reaction or zero point energy?
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Antiparticles travelling backward through time [duplicate]
Could someone please explain to me Feynman and Wheeler's theory of waves acting forward and backward in time?
I have read about their idea of an antiparticle behaving as a particle travelling ...
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Wave antiparticle duality
Can an antiparticle such as the antiparticle of an electron - a positron exhbit wave particle duality. We know from de Broglie, and the Davisson-Germer experiment in which we fire electrons from an ...
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Is my analogy on Hawking Radiation correct? [duplicate]
I just want to make sure what I know is correct. Let me explain and if there is anything wrong (any simple detail) with what I said, please, correct me.
When the particle crosses the event horizon, ...
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What happens when you dump antimatter onto a naked singularity?
Inspired by this question, what would happen if you dumped antimatter onto a naked singularity? The answers for the previous question suggest that once the antimatter crossed the event horizon, no ...
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In an anti-matter universe, would an anti-matter black hole emit anti-matter gamma radiation? [duplicate]
In an anti-matter universe, when an anti-matter black hole is consuming a large anti-matter star, would it emit anti-matter gamma radiation, or would gamma radiation be the same in either a matter or ...
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What happens if you dump antimatter into a black hole? [duplicate]
Let's say you have a 10 solar mass BH and dump 10 solar masses of antimatter into the BH... What would happen?
Would I have a 20 solar mass BH?
Would the BH explode
Do we even understand what would ...
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Why do people suspect antimatter falls upward? [duplicate]
Antimatter is similar to ordinary matter except they have the opposite charge, i like to know why this difference in their spin would affect their motion in the curvature of our 4-dimensional ...
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Could a solid object made entirely of antimatter safely “touch” ordinary matter without annihilating each other because of EM force?
Most is said about the anti-particles annihilating their ordinary particles counterparts.
When antimatter forms anti-atoms, it is said they behave like ordinary matter.
Since atoms are more stable ...
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Where does the kinetic energy of an object annihilated in a matter antimatter reaction go?
A bullet is moving at $0.99 c$. Now we annihilate it by having it collide with an equal mass of antimatter. (assume instant and perfect reaction) This will turn both bullet and antimatter into photons....
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Was it ever experimentally verified whether antimatter can form chemical bonds the same way matter does?
It's "common knowledge" that antimatter only differs from matter in its charge, and if left alone, it would behave exactly as matter does. This would infer that atoms of antimatter would form similar ...
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contradiction between total photon energy in the universe and early matter antimatter ratio
When looking at the energy count in the Universe, on one hand we are told dark energy 68%, dark matter 27%, regular matter 5%, neutrinos and photons a very small fraction (trace like).
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Does an antiparticle leave a different (from the normal particle) mark in a bubble chamber experiment
Experimentalists usually have experiments where they scatter particles superheated transparent liquid, thus checking for the particle's traces.
These particles can be for example quarks, and ...
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Are there anti virtual particles (mediator bosons)?
I have read these questions:
Can bosons have anti-particles?
Is there a possibility for discovery of anti-graviton, i.e. the graviton antiparticle?
Antiparticle for Higgs boson?
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Using Hawking radiation to turn matter into antimatter and vice-versa
I asked this question on the astronomy stack exchange: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/30477 and it was recommended to me that I instead ask it here.
My question is related to the following ...
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Why does every anyon need to have an antiparticle?
It seems to be a basic requisite to every anyonic model that every type of anyon, say $a$ in the theory comes with an antiparticle $\bar{a}$ (which can be itself) where $a$ and $\bar{a}$ fuse together ...
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Difference between electron, muon and tau neutrinos [duplicate]
What is the difference between the neutrinos of electron, muon and tau leptons.? They all same to be neutral and carry a very small mass. Similarly what is the difference bewteen anti neutrinos of ...
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Could a large amount of antimatter accelerate the universe instead of dark energy? [closed]
It is not known whether antimatter is repulsed by or attracted to matter. For the purpose of this question, I assume that antimatter is repulsive to regular matter (otherwise this question makes no ...
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When is emitting a particle (e.g. neutrino) the same as absorbing an antiparticle?
I've read that Pauli first proposed the neutrino to explain energy and momentum conservation in this equation:
$$n \to p^+ + e^- + \overline\nu_e$$
But it is also written differently here:
$$\nu_e ...
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Are neutrinos or antineutrinos more prevalent?
As I understand it, neutrinos were first proposed to explain energy and momentum conservation in beta decay, as a hypothetical particle emitted together with the electron and proton. Thus Pauli gave ...
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Do positrons have electric dipole moments?
Is there experimental evidence checking to see if the positron has an electric dipole moment at rest? Or has an experiment measured it’s magnetic dipole moment at rest?
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How can one of the particles on a pair of virtual particles created by vacuum fluctuations have negative energy? How does it lower black hole mass?
Assuming Stephen Hawking’s 1975 “Particle Creation by Black Holes” :
“One might picture this negative energy flux in the following way. Just outside the event horizon there will be virtual pairs of ...
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Matter antimatter annihilation problems
It can be sai!d that antimatter and matter are opposite excitations in an all permeable quantum field. excitations can be said as waves. so, matter and antimatter can be interpreted as waves or ...
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Did Supernova 2007bi really explode due to antimatter creation?
I was watching a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ59_akUUBs) about massive explosions and came across 2007bi.
The video stated that this SN happened due to gamma-ray driven antimatter ...
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Would a penning trap be disrupted if passed through the Earth's magnetic field?
Working on my essay for school and currently talking about using antimatter as a propulsion technique for rockets. At the moment I am talking about potential hazards and was wondering if passing ...
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Why particles annihilate only with their antiparticles? [duplicate]
Why particles annihilate only with their antiparticles?
Why can't a particle annihilate with any other antiparticle?
Is it because both the particle and the antiparticle have to be excitations of the ...
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How can matter and anti-matter coexist in a meson?
Whilst learning about the nature of subatomic particles, I came along a pion zero meson. What really stumbled me was that the quark configuration of the particles was up and anti-up or down and anti-...
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Quantization of the massless neutrino field
If a massless neutrino or anti-neutrino is considered (in the whole post I consider neutrinos res. anti-neutrinos as mass-less), it is described by the Weyl-equation:
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What is the minimum distance between an electron and a positron so that they do not annihilate? [duplicate]
What is the minimum distance between an electron and a positron so that they do not annihilate?
I want to assume that the location of an electron can be determined with an accuracy of 0.004 Angstroms,...
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Antiproton production threshold
Why is the antiproton threshold on cern 6* m_p and on uspas it is 7 * m_p?
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Is it possible to induce left-handed electromagnetic wave from positrons? [duplicate]
All observations of electromagnetic induction we have, are from the flow of electrons. The accelerated electrons in the antenna rod induce an EM wave with a right handed system of the electric field ...
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When did we first observe annihilation of antimatter?
Firstly, when did we actually observe this process? (I assume we have but I may be wrong about that as well.)
Secondly, did we expect it to happen, or not?
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QFT Matter Fields and Anti-Matter Fields
In QFT is it the case that the electron matter field and anti-electron matter field (using the electron as a specific example) are truly distinct physical fields versus different excitation modes of ...
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Antimatter particle in bananas [duplicate]
I recently came to know that banana produces antimatter. How does this happen and why doesn't the antimatter annihilate as our Earth has matter.
I looked for a relevant answer but could not find it.
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Why is there equal protons and electrons in the universe?
Matter and anti-matter are asymmetric.
Why are protons and electrons symmetric?
Would we still have galaxies and stars if there were a strong overall charge?
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Can an atomic nucleus contain both particles and antiparticles? [duplicate]
Is it theoretically possible to make a "deuterium" atom containing a proton and an antineutron in its nucleus?
Would the strong nuclear force cause attraction between a proton and an antineutron?
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Why do we have constraints on the baryon asymmetry of the universe and not the lepton asymmetry?
What is it about baryons that means that CMB observations can determine their asymmetry without also including a charged leptonic component?
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How does the negative energy solution to the Dirac equation predict the antielectron?
Please, can someone explain how the negative energy solution can be used to predict the existence of the antielectron?
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What direction would this photon go?
Say a matter-antimatter pair of particles annihilates linearly (from a reference frame where the sum of the momenta is zero) to create a photon.
Wouldn't momentum conservation prevent the photon from ...
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Don't matter-antimatter annihilate each other completely releasing energy as photon?
Matter and antimatter should annihilate each other completely releasing energy in the form of photon, however it is discovered that smashing electron and positron together can also spew out higgs ...
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Is anti-sterile neutrino possible?
Due to the surplus of electron neutrino led people to suggest the possibility of 4th neutrino flavour, and it is thought to only interact with gravity and nothing else not even weak interaction. So is ...
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What would happen if antiprotons were studied under the conditions of particle deceleration that they are collected under? [closed]
I have not had a very clear understanding of how antiprotons are collected, but I do know that when they collide with matter they explode in a puff of energy. Or so I have been told. If the current ...
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Is it possible to transform energy stored in anti-matter into coherent radiation?
In Travellers, a sci-fi show on netflix, they have 10g of some form of anti-matter floating around. A quick $mc^2$ calculation gives a quantity of $E = 10^{15} J$. For reference, Little Boy released $...
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What happens to the quantum information of a particle and an antiparticle when they annihilate?
I understand that the quantum no-deleting theorem dictates that it's impossible to delete quantum information, so what happens to the quantum information of a particle and an antiparticle when they ...
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Do hydrogen and anti-helium annihilate one another? [duplicate]
So far I know that electron and positron annihilate each other completely and release energy, how about matter hydrogen atom with 1 proton and 1 electron come into contact with antimatter anti-helium ...
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Corresponding particle-antiparticle solutions for Klein-Gordon equation
For free particle solutions in a box, the following 4 solutions are possible(Not all 4 are independent though) as
$$\psi_+=A_+ \exp{\frac{i}{\hbar}(px-Et)}\\\psi_+^*=A_+^* \exp{\frac{-i}{\hbar}(px-Et)}...
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Is the spin-statistics theorem true for antifermions?
The spin-statistics theorem says that having a system of identical fermions, the total wavefunction is antisymmetric with respect to exchange of any two fermions.
My question is, does this hold for ...
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Is it possible to add energy to an antiparticle?
The title says most of it but the more drawn out version is. If you were to add energy to a single particle or antiparticle in a pair, what would be the effects, if it is possible to do.
