Session B15 - General Poster Session.
POSTER session, Friday morning, April 18
Congressional Hall, Renaissance
The 1.02 MeV binding energy _bE of an e^-e^+ pair in the epola is 10^5 times higher then the 8 eV binding energy in the Na^+Cl^- lattice.(M.Simhony, Invitation to the Natural Physics of Matter, Space, and Radiation, World Scientific, 1994 (292pp).) In these fcc lattices, the velocity of elastic waves is c=(E/m)^1/2 (or E=mc^2), where m is the mass of any number n of constituent pairs, and E is the sum of their binding energies, E=n_bE. This yields the velocity of light in the epola, or of sound in polycrystalline NaCl. When a moving guest particle enters a lattice unit, the unit expands; when the guest leaves, the unit contracts. Thus the lattice particles vibrate with a frequency proportional to the velocity v of the guest. At v\llc, the motion is accompanied by an electromagnetic (epola) wave of de Broglie wavelength \lambda_B. Pairs of guest particles can move only under certain quantized values of \lambda_B. In atoms, e.g., or in a positronium quasi-atom, the orbit lengths must contain integral numbers of \lambda_B, i.e., velocities, radii, thus binding energies and distances are quantized. The distance between the electron and positron in the neutrino depends inversely on the quantized neutrino binding energy E_n. This energy varies from several eV (e.g., in positronium) up into the keV ranges. It is emitted by the free electron and positron when they create the neutrino. On absorption of the E_n energy, the neutrino disappears and the two particles are free again.