Not really, I'm more thinking about initially generating individual neutral mesons or +/- pairs from decay of highly excited nuclei, with no actual nucleon disintegration before some other kind of decay can occur, which might be almost as weird.
What you are describing is a direct nucleon disintegration of a nucleon into mesons it is indeed hard to imagine a process how this can occur. Holmlid seems to be deciding something along those lines however, if I understand right. This is also problematic as he mentions that +/- Kaons are produced first that contain strange quarks these later decay to pions and so on. Strange quarks are heavier than up and down quarks so are unlikely to come from decay of those quarks, so we need to explain where the strange quarks come from. I do wonder if a long neutral Kaon which contains + and - strange and down quarks in an oscillating state could be generated from decay of sufficiently highly excited nuclei and that if these neutral Kaons containing strange quarks once produced can interact with nucleons sufficiently to lead to disruption of the a nucleon and generate the products seen in Holmlids experiment without a high energy impact. I also wonder if K0 interactions with nuclei have been observed in other devices including particle accelerators, these would be complicated by higher energy interactions however. I agree if they react to produce +/- Kaons and cause nucleon decay it would indeed be something amazing. But surely some kinds of experiments using K0 capture in nuclei have been performed at some point so if anything as strange as this occurs we should have evidence of it. The alternatives are also hard to explain, however: A random high energy perturbation outside nucleus some how generating the pions High energy impacts of light nuclei or mid weight nuclei might generate Mesons but then they would also likely generate neutrons, gammas and other fission products. Some amazing external force ripping apart the nucleons in deuterium into pions with out just over coming the inter nucleon binding energy and creating high energy protons and neutrons Tachyon disintegration, I'm still not fully up to speed on understanding the possibilities mentioned here about Tachyon disintegration, but Axil's insights have often been shown to potentially have an important part to play once we understand them, so maybe indeed that could be an alternative. There is another possibility in that the data is misinterpreted and mesons are not present, but here I am assuming that is not the case. > On 27 okt. 2015, at 22:41, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Stephen Cooke <stephen_coo...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> "*** If I understand correctly there are no sufficiently heavy elements >> available in Holmlids experiment for Kaons to form this way? …" >> >> This is not strictly correct. [ ... snip ... ] >> Ni 62 and Fe 58 would both therefore be sufficient for containing a K0 Meson >> 496 MeV >> Fe 56 on the other hand would just fall short. > > Note that what you seem to be describing is squeezing the 3+ quarks in each ~ > of the 58 nucleons in a nickel nucleus into the quark and antiquark pair in > the kaon. Has anything so fantastic been accomplished in a particle > accelerator? (The number of quarks in a nucleon is complicated by the idea > of "sea quarks".) > > Or, alternatively, your proposal appears to involve creating shrunken quarks > that no longer have the mass that was given over to the kaon. (Something > some people here might be amenable to.) > > Eric >
