Experiments on the structure of an individual elementary particle

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Feb 1990

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Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 247, Feb. 2, 1990, p. 539-545. Research supported by NSF.

Physics

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Cryogenic Temperature, Electron Capture, Elementary Particles, Liquid Helium, Ultrahigh Vacuum, Electric Fields, Magnetic Fields, Microwave Spectra, Quantum Electrodynamics

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Research begun in the early 1970s on geonium is reviewed. Geonium is a man-made atom, created at liquid-helium temperature in ultrahigh vacuum from an individual electron in magnetic and electric trapping fields. For this atom the electron gyromagnetic ratio g = 2.000,000,000,110(60) has been measured in microwave spectroscopy experiments after subtraction of quantum electrodynamics shifts. The g - g(Dirac) = 11 x 10 to the -11th excess over the value g(Dirac) = 2 for the theoretical Dirac point electron suggests for the electron of nature a corresponding excess radius R(e) - R(Dirac) over the Dirac radius R(Dirac) = 0 and a spatial structure. From a plot of measured g and R values for the near-Dirac particles electron, proton, triton, and helium-3, an electron radius R(e) about 10 to the -20th centimeter is extrapolated. In a speculation, the triton-proton-quark model has been extended to the electron, to a succession of subquarks, and finally to the 'cosmon'. Rapid decay of a cosmon-anticosmon pair created from the 'nothing' state in a spontaneous quantum jump initiated the Big Bang.

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