Lorentz Violation and α-Decay
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Relating the effective Lorentz violation coefficients for composite particles to the coefficients for their constituent fields is a challenging problem. We calculate the Lorentz violation coefficients relevant to the dynamics of an α-particle in terms of proton and neutron coefficients. The α-particle coefficients would lead to anisotropies in the α-decays of nuclei, and because the decay process involves quantum tunneling, the effects of any Lorentz violations could be exponentially enhanced. [email protected]
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