Energy Deposition in Antimatter Meteors
Abstract
Antimatter meteors, like ordinary ones, can be heated during their infall flight. However, this could happen by a completely different process than in the case of koinomatter meteors, since in the latter case the annihilation interactions mechanism is absent. In case of antimatter meteors, the temperature may be increased mainly due to the energy deposition effect, caused by the passage of the annihilation secondaries penetrating throughout the meteor. The energy deposition of the secondary particles produced in matter antimatter annihilation interactions as a function of the dimensions of an antimatter meteor is described in this paper.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00054616
- Bibcode:
- 1991EM&P...55..215P
- Keywords:
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- Annihilation Reactions;
- Antimatter;
- High Energy Interactions;
- Meteoroids;
- Vapor Pressure;
- Antinucleons;
- Neutral Particles;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration