Spontaneous creation of muons and destruction of protons in ultra- dense hydrogen H(0)

Abstract

A patented laser-induced muon generator (Holmlid 2017) is here used to observe also the spontaneous formation of muons from ultra-dense hydrogen H(0). The muons are detected by their interaction with converters and scintillators both inside and outside the vacuum apparatus containing the muon generator. This interaction creates x-ray radiation which then gives beta e+e- pairs with a zero energy cutoff of 510 ± 10 keV. The e+e- energy distributions are matched by a statistical model. It is concluded that muons are formed by spontaneous annihilation nuclear processes in H(0) primarily creating mesons. The lifetime before the spontaneous proton destruction by annihilation is estimated from the results to be of the order of 1011 years, thus much shorter than theoretical proton lifetimes.