Possible observation of tachyons associated with extensive air showers

Clay, R. W.; Crouch, P.C.

doi:10.1038/248028a0

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“…High-energy accelerator experiments also find a very few e+e-+3y events at 30 and 80 GeV and the rate agrees with QED theory when detector thresholds are properly accounted for (Femandez, 1987;Martyn, 1990; L3 Collab, 1990;Opal Collab, 1991) . The complication of detector threshold sensitivity combined with the complexity of cosmic-ray showers precludes a quantitative analysis of triplet state e+eannihilation rates in the previous tachyon cosmic-ray searches (Marini, 1982;Bhat, 1979;Bartlett, 1978;Smith, 1977;Prescott, 1976;Hazen, 1975;Clay, 1974). However, we have discussed this problem with Prof. Wayne Hazen (Hazen, 1975) who explained that these experiments were not analyzed for the fundamental processes (as we desire) but rather, to simply disprove the Clay and Crouch (Clay, 1974) positive tachyon result.…”

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A viable superluminal hypothesis: Tachyon emission from orthopositronium

Skalsey¹,

Conti²,

Engbrecht³

et al. 2000

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Tachyons are hypothetical particles that travel faster than the vacuum speed of light. Previous experiments have searched for, but have not found evidence of tachyons. Long-standing, anomalous measurements of the orthopositronium (o-Ps) decay rate are interpreted as evidence for two tachyons being occasionally emitted when o-Ps decays. Restricting the coupling of tachyon pairs to a single photon (no tachyon coupling to matter) yields a new theory where tachyons are only observed in o-Ps decay and not in the previous tachyon experiments. Combining the single photon coupling theory with all previous experiments predicts that these tachyons must deposit energy while traversing scintillator detectors. A new tachyon search experiment will use this energy loss prediction to attempt to find tachyons passing through the apparatus or set limits disproving the original o-Ps to tachyon hypothesis. Viewing an intense o-Ps source, a time-of-flight spectrometer uses the superluminal property of tachyons for identification. Several months of continuous data acquisition will be necessary to completely eliminate the o-Ps to tachyon hypothesis.

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Section: Status Of the O-ps Decay Rate Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

A viable superluminal hypothesis: Tachyon emission from orthopositronium

Skalsey¹,

Conti²,

Engbrecht³

et al. 2000

AIP Conference Proceedings

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“…Such faster-than-light (FTL) particles, most widely known as tachyons after Feinberg [1], have received considerable attention by both theoreticians and experimenters during the last five decades [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Such faster-than-light (FTL) particles, most widely known as tachyons after Feinberg [1], have received considerable attention by both theoreticians and experimenters during the last five decades [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

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On El Naschie's Conjugate Complex.Time, Fractal E(∞) Space-Time and Faster-Than-Light Particles

Sigalotti¹,

Mejias²

2006

International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

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In the last decade, El Naschie published a series of seminal papers where he introduced the idea of conjugate complex time and developed his famous fractal is* 00 ' space-time theory, which reconciles general relativity with quantum mechanics by formulating both theories in the context of a transfinite geometry. In this paper, we put together ingredients of El Naschie's theory that reopen in a theoretically consistent manner the possibility of faster-than-light particles and clarify the question of the instantaneous correlations envisaged in numerous EPR-like experiments.

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“…A letter by Clay and Crouch [ 1 ] reported evidence for a statistically significant bunching of scintillator pulses within the 100/ssec interval preceding the arrival of the ordinary component particles of air showers due to primaries of minimum energy 2 × 1015 eV. They interpreted their results as possible evidence for the production of tachyons in the interactions of the shower particles or the primary particles with the atmosphere.…”

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