2002/05/21 by E. M. Drobyshevski · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Computer science #Daemon #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Physics #Proton #Proton decay #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/10556790310001612535
published in Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions 23(2), 173-183 (Taylor & Francis) · 11 pages
arxiv created 2002/05/21 · openalex publication_date 2004/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Daemon-stimulated proton decay is capable of providing an appreciable part of the Sun luminosity L ⊙ as well as non-electron flavour component in the solar neutrino flux. This follows, firstly, from our experiments on detection of negative daemons in Earth-crossing orbits, which give Δτex ≈ 1 µs for the decay time of a daemon-containing proton, and, secondly, from an estimate of the total number of daemons which could be captured by the Sun from the Galactic disc (up to about 2.4 × 1030). Because of their huge mass (about 3 × 10−5 g), the captured daemons settle down to the Sun's centre to form there a kernel a few centimetres in size. The outside protons diffuse gradually into the kernel to decay there with a release of energy. If this process generates a noticeable part of L ⊙, physically sound estimates of the parameters of an isothermal kernel can be obtained under the assumption that it consists mainly of negative daemons. Proton decay maintains a high temperature of the daemon gas (up to about 1011–1012 K), which makes it physically collisionless and prevents kernel collapse into a black hole.