Alpha Head on Collision with a Fixed Gold Nucleus, Taking into Account the Relativistic Rest Mass Variation as Implied by Mass-Energy Equivalence

• Authors: T. Yarman , M. Arik , A. Kholmetskii , A. Altintas , F. Ozaydin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We reformulate the Rutherford scattering of alpha particle for a head on collision, taking into account the rest mass variation of the particle, as implied by the energy conservation law. Our relativistic reformulation (which includes the energy conservation) constitutes a new example for the breakdown of the Lorentz invariance. Briefly speaking, even at rest or during the whole scattering process, the distance between the alpha particle and the gold nucleus is not invariant but depends on the frame of the observer attached to either object. According to our relativistic reformulation, we also provide a new set of Lorentz transformations.

Keywords

EN

21.60.-n; 24.10.Jv

Discipline

• 21.60.-n: Nuclear structure models and methods
• 24.10.Jv: Relativistic models

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 125
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 618-619

Dates

published

2014-02

Contributors

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T. Yarman

• Okan University, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey

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M. Arik

• Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

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A. Kholmetskii

• Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus

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A. Altintas

• Okan University, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey

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F. Ozaydin

• Isik University, Sile, Istanbul, Turkey

References

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• 2. F. Ozaydin, A.A. Altintas, L.A. Susam, M. Arik, T. Yarman, doi: 10.1063/1.4751628, AIP Conf. Proc. 1476, 361 (2012)
• 3. T. Yarman, M. Arik, A.A. Altintas, F. Ozaydin, in: doi: 10.1142/9789814504782_0022, Physics of Reality: Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos - Proceedings of the 8th Symposium Honoring Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier, Ed. R. Amoroso, World Scientific, Singapore 2013
• 4. T. Yarman, doi: 10.1007/s10702-006-1057-7, Found. Phys. Lett. 19, 675 (2006)

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.125.618