QUANTUM CRITICALITY, EVENT HORIZONS AND COSMIC GAMMA RAY BURSTS
QUANTUM CRITICALITY, EVENT HORIZONS AND COSMIC GAMMA RAY BURSTS
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量子临界性、事件视界和宇宙伽马射线爆发
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2003
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D. Santiago
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J. Barbieri;G. Chapline;D. Santiago
The logical inconsistency of quantum mechanics and general relativity can be avoided if the relativity principle fails for length scales smaller than the quantum coherence length for the vacuum state. This has dramatic consequences for the phenomenology of compact astrophysical objects. If we assume that at the Planck scale elementary particles interact via a universal four-point interaction and baryon number conservation is violated, then nucleons approaching an event horizon surface can disintegrate into gamma rays and high energy leptons. Integrating the Altarelli–Parisi equations to find the Planck scale parton distribution function for a nucleon, we find that nucleon decays produce a fluorescence gamma ray spectrum strikingly similar to that observed for cosmic gamma ray bursts.