What's the Matter with Antimatter?

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May 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aas...202.5406k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 202, #54.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.773

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Variations of potential energy per nucleon (M/A = 1.00 +/- 0.01 amu /nucleon) with nuclear charge density (charge/nucleon, 0 <= Z/A <= 1 ) for the 2,850 known nuclides [1] indicate that n-p interactions are attractive but n-n and p-p interactions are repulsive and symmetric, except for Coulomb effects [2,3]. Fig. 1 [4] shows matter and antimatter as reflections of one another across a symmetry plane at Z/A = 0. However, matter and anti-matter are both on the right of Z/A = 0 in Fig 1, e.g., the beta-decay of mirror nuclides in Fig. 2 [5]. Decay must overcome a 1.022 MeV barrier to β t+ emission, as shown in Fig. 3 [6] for 13N -> 13C + β + + 1.198 MeV; Qtotal = M(13N) - M(13C) = 2.220 MeV = 1.022 MeV + 1.198 MeV. By convention the 1.022 MeV barrier is attributed to an electron/positron pair, each with a rest mass of 0.511 MeV. We suggest that the plane of symmetry for matter may not be at Z/A = 0 as shown in Fig 1, but near Z/A = 0.50 where there is maximum nuclear stability. The mass ratio, H-/H+, may be used to test our hypothesis. For the standard model, the mass ratio is H-/H+ = 1.0011. For the model proposed here, the mass ratio is H-/H+ << 1.0011.
REFERENCES:
1. Nuclear Wallet Cards, 6th ed., Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, 74 pp. (2000);
2. J. Fusion Energy 19, 93 (2000);
3. O. Manuel, E. Miller and A. Katragada, "Neutron repulsion confirmed as energy source," J. Fusion Energy, in press (2003);
4. www.umr.edu/\char126 om/fig1.pdf or www.umr.edu/\char126 om/fig1.html;
5. www.umr.edu/\char126 om/fig2.pdf or www.umr.edu/\char126 om/fig2.html;
6. www.umr.edu/\char126 om/fig3.pdf or www.umr.edu/\char126 om/fig3.html

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