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GSJ: Received Jun. 6, 2007:
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The Spins of the Pion and Muon, in Light of Neutrinos being Photon-Like
James Saba
Recently, evidence that neutrinos do not oscillate and thus may well be the photon-like particles hypothesized in a new theory of fundamental particles (1) has been reported by Fermi Lab (2).
It is believed that while pions have 0 spin, the muon has 1/2 spin. However if neutrinos are photon-like with spin 1, how is this explained?
Herein is proposed a solution to this problem, which is depicted in the following cartoon.
At first glance, one may object to the pion and muon being excessively complicated. However as with DNA, it is proposed that all known massive particles except the electron and positron, are derived from the repetition and arrangement of a small set of different particles.
Therein, as previously suggested (3), the pion is hypothesized to contain six color charged particles (Diracons), in 3 particle-antiparticle pairs. As Dirac suggests, the charge of the largest particle of one of these particle-antiparticle pairs is about 70e (4), and assuming charge and mass are proportional, a mass of about 35 MeV. A particle of the smaller pairs is proposed to have a charge of about 35e and mass of about 17.5 MeV.
Importantly, the sum of these masses (2 x 35) + (4 x 17.5) = 140 MeV, is exceptionally close to the measured value of 139.6 MeV for the charged pion.
The one electron of this Pi negative, represented in pink, is positioned at one of the poles of the larger 35 MeV Diracon. As previously suggested (5), at this position the spin-orbit are such that the electron contributes 0 or 1 spin to the pion.
The different colors representing the electron, the large Diracon, and small Diracon indicate that the charges of these particles of different mass are somehow different, yet still capable of interacting.
With annihilation of one of the smaller particle-antiparticle Diracon pairs, the essential concept is that the electron can no longer reside at the pole of the large Diracon, and the small Diracon does not have sufficient charge to maintain the electron at a pole. The orbits and asymmetric positions of the muon particles is to suggest that the imbalance of charges is responsible for the relative long life of the muon.
The muon depiction also suggests that loss of strong force interaction of the muon relative to the pion is due to the reorganization of the charges, particularly the electron, which may form a spherical shell around the Diracons.
Notice that loss of a small Diracon particle-antiparticle pair reduces the pion mass to about 105 MeV, and that if we add the mass of the electron at 0.5 MeV, the result is astonishingly close to the measured muon mass of 105.6 MeV.
Finally, if the mass of the proton and neutron are very close to the constituent Diracons, as in the pion and muon, we can safely assume they are not composed of 3 quarks, and that perhaps higher order, heavier Diracons are involved. There appear to be several possible Diracon configurations for the nucleons.
Perhaps now others with mathematical skill will have the courage to seriously consider Dirac's lines of reasoning and apply the insights from the resultant equations to the new theory. Particularly, it would be splendid to show the spin-orbit of an electron at the pole of a highly charged particle contributes integral spin; or that the spin of a two particle system of unequally charged Fermions can be other than integral.
Comments
In the very kind feedbacks so far, a few points appear worth mentioning.
Here is a potential explanation. Let us assume that when two Diracons collide the energy can be converted into mass just as the collision of an electron and positron. Let us also assume the energy of binding is greater than the mass of the electron, and perhaps smaller Diracons. What will happen is that as the Diracons collide, instead of breaking apart, new particles with mass smaller than the binding energy will be created. Eventually as one increases the colliding energy one starts to produce the Diracons one is colliding, and perhaps heavier Diracons, all of which may combine in various ways.
Perhaps the jets that being seen are massive particle production events resulting from two Diracons colliding at very high energy.
2) There have been questions about the precise kinds of binding via a Diracon.
This certainly is a mystery, but it is interesting to note that for a nucleus of Z=70 an electron bound by such a nucleus would not be considered to be confined to a nuclear pole. So how is it that a Diracon with a comparable charge is able to do this? One potential explanation is that as two fundamental Fermions get very close magnetic forces, relative to electrostatic forces, become important.
3) Others keep insisting that the spin of the neutrino must be 1/2. However, in addition to the suggestions in this article, consider that the only other particles with spin 1/2 are massive and charged. Furthermore, if as proposed mass is proportional to charge, then neutral neutrinos must be massless.
On purely the beauty of symmetry, I personally favor the Diracons being dipoles. However, it is interesting to consider what the photon-like annihilation products of monopoles would be.
4) Many have commented that proof for oscillations does exist. It definitely does appear that one neutrino can convert to another, yet from my understanding in these experiments the neutrinos transversed very large masses (the Earth or Sun). The bottom line of Fermi lab's results as I see it, is that when such a mass is not present, they looked and did not find oscillations.
There is a different explanation besides oscillation indicating mass, and you can see this in the figure of http://www.wbabin.net/saba/saba76.htm
5) There has been a question about neutrino size, and my guess is that based on their weak interaction they are very small, probably as a result of the tiny dimensions of the movements of the Diracons. These movement may also be relevant to the process of photon absorption.
Please note that the theory is continually evolving and that in prior articles, some assertions now appear to be incorrect. However the basic themes of the theory as presented in these older papers remain solid.
2)
Fermi Lab MiniBooNE Neutrino Experiment Does Not Support Neutrino
Oscillation or Mass.
Saba, J Gen Sci J May 2, 2007
3)
Implications of Dirac's Monopoles for Color Charged Particles of the
New Quark Theory.
Saba, J Gen Sci J Aug 8, 2003
4) Directions in Physics : lectures delivered during a visit to
Australia and New Zealand in 1975
P. A. M. Dirac (Wiley, c1978) Pages
40-54
5)
A Two Particle System Without Integer Spin.
Saba, J Gen Sci J
December 22, 2004
6)
Initial results from the CHOOZ Long Baseline Reactor Neutrino
Oscillation Experiment. Apollonio, et al.