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Search for parity violation in cosmic rays
A. A. Andrianovab, D. Espriub, S. S. Kolevatova a St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
b Departament d'Estructura i Constituents
de la Matàeria, Institut de Ciàencies del Cosmos
(ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia,
Spain
Abstract:
We study a possible parity-violating area near the high-energy sources of photons. Such a violation might occur as a result of the condensation of a pseudoscalar background. We show that if this condensate has a large density gradient, then photons with a positive chirality decay into $e^+e^-$ pairs. This process consequently reduces the number of positively polarized photons and can increase the portion of positrons in cosmic rays.
Keywords:
cosmic ray, Maxwell–Chern–Simons electrodynamics, photon decay.
Received: 28.02.2015
Citation:
A. A. Andrianov, D. Espriu, S. S. Kolevatov, “Search for parity violation in cosmic rays”, TMF, 184:3 (2015), 392–397; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 184:3 (2015), 1234–1238
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf8901https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf8901 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf/v184/i3/p392
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