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Richard M. Weiner

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arXiv2017

Dark Matter as a consequence of electric charge non-conservation - will it remain dark forever?

It is conjectured that dark matter (DM) was produced before inflation from neutral particles present after the Big Bang and survived inflation due to a specific coupling with gravitation, while the charged particles existing after the Big Bang disappeared during inflation in a process of charge non-conservation. Ordinary matter was produced at a later stage at a lower temperature following a symmetry restoring phase transition. In this way the non-luminous character of dark matter and the existence of two types of matter, ordinary and dark, get a natural explanation. Because of the high temperatures preceding inflation, the masses of particles produced during that time are too large to be detected by conventional particle physics methods and possibly will never be detected.

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arXiv2013

Spin-statistics-quantum number connection and supersymmetry

The analogy between the Skyrme and Higgs field leads to the conjecture that all fermions are skyrmions and thus always carry conserved quantum numbers, which are identified with baryon or lepton quantum numbers. This connection between spin and quantum numbers, which parallels the connection between spin and statistics due to the Pauli principle, may explain why supersymmetry has not been observed. Creation of s-particles at higher than present energies due to a breakdown of the Skyrme mechanism might imply the violation of the exclusion principle.

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arXiv2010

Comments on "Observation of Long-Range, Near-Side Angular Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC" by the CMS collaboration(arXiv:1009.4122v1 [hep-ex])"

It is the purpose of this note to point out that the CMS observation is in line with previous observations in particle physics at large transverse momenta and/or high multiplicities at lower energies, which were interpreted as possible evidence for quark-gluon plasma (QGP), and to suggest other features of the QGP observed in A+A collisions such as radial flow and jet quenching, which should be investigated in p-p collisions in order to provide further evidence for QGP production.

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arXiv2010

The mysteries of fermions

It is conjectured that all known fermions are topological solitons. This could explain the non-observation of bosonic leptons and baryons and provide a physical mechanism for the Pauli exclusion principle.

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arXiv1999

Boson Interferometry in High Energy Physics

Intensity interferometry and in particular that due to Bose Einstein correlations (BEC) constitutes at present the only direct experimental method for the determination of sizes and lifetimes of sources in particle and nuclear physics. The measurement of these is essential for an understanding of the dynamics of strong interactions which are responsible for the existence and properties of atomic nuclei. Moreover a new state of matter, quark matter, in which the ultimate constituents of matter move freely, is within the reach of present accelerators or those under construction. The confirmation of the existence of this new state is intimately linked with the determination of its space-time properties. Furthermore BEC provides information about quantum coherence which lies at the basis of the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation seen in many chapters of physics. Coherence and the associated classical fields are essential ingredients in modern theories of particle physics including the standard model. Last but not least besides this "applicative" aspect of BEC, this effect has implications for the foundations of quantum mechanics including the understanding of the concept of ``identical particles". Recent theoretical developments in BEC are reviewed and their application in high energy particle and heavy-ion reactions is analyzed. The treated topics include: a) a comparison between the wave-function approach and the space-time approach based on classical currents, which predicts "surprising" particle anti-particle BEC b) the study of final state interactions c) the use of hydrodynamics d) the relation between correlations and multiplicity distributions.

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