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Probing Positron Gravitation at HERA

2015/07/06 by V. Gharibyan, Vahagn Gharibyan, Gharibyan, Vahagn
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.02589

arxiv created 2015/07/06 · openalex publication_date 2015/07/06 · arxiv updated 2015/07/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

An equality of particle and antiparticle gravitational interactions holds in general relativity and is supported by indirect observations. Here I develop a method based on high energy Compton scattering to measure the gravitational interaction of accelerated charged particles. Within that formalism the Compton spectra measured at HERA rule out the positron's anti-gravity and hint for a positron's 1.3(0.2)% weaker coupling to the gravitational field relative to an electron.

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