About the Observed Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter
- 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
- 2 Nano Tech Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Abstract
Some consequences, due to the existence of a pair of decoupled Schr ö dinger-like but relativistic quantum mechanics wave equations, are explored. It is shown that one equation directly describes the quantum states of a single spin-0 particle, and the other one indirectly describes the quantum states of the corresponding antiparticle. In correspondence with the matter-antimatter symmetry, for a Coulomb potential, a charge conjugation operation transforms the second equation in the first one. However, if a particle could interact with itself (gravitationally or electrically) due to the spread of its wavefunction, the C-symmetry could be broken; therefore, matter and antimatter could be distinguished. Under these assumptions, it is deducted the impossibility of the existence of particles and antiparticles with a mass larger than the Plank mass ( m P ), or with the absolute value of the charge larger than the Plank charge ( q P ). It is proposed the existence of primordial antimatter electrical sinks. It is also suggested that all macroscopic matter objects with a mass m > m P , and all macroscopic antimatter bodies with a charge | q | > q P should not be quantum but classical objects. It is argued that these findings could explain the absence of antimatter with a complicated structure and partially explain the excess of charged matter in the known Universe.
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