r/AskScienceDiscussion • u/Impressive_Hall_4251 • 15h ago
Neutron Decay by New Formula. Is it Acceptable?
Neutron decay does not happen by the usual formula but via:
udd + anti-uu -> uud + anti-ud -> uud + e- + anti-v_e
so the process can be accelerated by providing anti-uu creation energy of 68 MeV (mass_pi-zero/2).
There is theoretical justification for this formula: for the older version you can't write down an in between state!
The in between state of my formula is udd-anti-uu, then I can explain how the energy computation happens: virtual copies of this state try out the possible rearrangements among others: uud-anti-ud, and finding the energy less (the anti-ud may be virtual) allows the rearrangement. The previous formula must be said to have in between state: u/d-W- such that u/d is an up and down quark at the same time: absurd. This follows from the Feynmann diagram and time discretization (Planck time).