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Are single µ⁺ e⁻ pairs less or more stable than a whole plasma of this mixture? Since µ⁺ decays into e⁺ and some, the e⁺ e⁻ antimatter annihilation likely crea
by singularity2001 4y ago
Are single µ⁺ e⁻ pairs less or more stable than a whole plasma of this mixture?
Since µ⁺ decays into e⁺ and some, the e⁺ e⁻ antimatter annihilation likely creates a whole lot of chaos in that plasma (?)!
e⁺ e⁻ doesn't always immediately annihilate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium
"we expect to increase the Ps density to the point where many thousands of atoms interact and can undergo a phase transition to form a Bose–Einstein condensate"
Interesting side read: The current experimental limit on the muon electric dipole moment, |dμ| < 1.9 × 10−19 e·cm set by the E821 experiment at the Brookhaven Laboratory, is orders of magnitude above the Standard Model prediction.
Also appearing in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_radius_puzzle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_radius_puzzle