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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2003 Volume 77, Issue 7, Pages 403–406 (Mi jetpl2772)

This article is cited in 11 papers

Primordial pairing and binding of superheavy charged particles in the Early Universe

V. K. Dubrovicha, M. Yu. Khlopovbcd

a Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences,, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Zelenchukskii region, Karachaevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika
b Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University)
c M. V. Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
d Physics Department, Universita degli studi "La Sapienza"

Abstract: Primordial superheavy particles, considered as the source of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) and produced in local processes in the early Universe, should bear some strictly or approximately conserved charge to be sufficiently stable to survive to the present time. Charge conservation makes them to be produced in pairs, and the estimated separation of particle and antiparticle in such pair is shown to be in some cases much smaller than the average separation determined by the averaged number density of considered particles. If the new $U(1)$ charge is the source of a long range field similar to electromagnetic field, the particle and antiparticle, possessing that charge, can form primordial bound system with annihilation timescale, which can satisfy the conditions, assumed for this type of UHECR sources. These conditions severely constrain the possible properties of considered particles.

PACS: 95.30.Cg, 98.80.Cq

Received: 10.07.2002
Revised: 18.02.2003

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2003, 77:7, 335–338

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