A Search for the de Broglie Particle Internal Clock by Means of Electron Channeling
Abstract
The particle internal clock conjectured by de Broglie in 1924 was investigated in a channeling experiment using a beam of ∼80 MeV electrons aligned along the <110> direction of a 1 μm thick silicon crystal. Some of the electrons undergo a rosette motion, in which they interact with a single atomic row. When the electron energy is finely varied, the rate of electron transmission at 0° shows a 8% dip within 0.5% of the resonance energy, 80.874 MeV, for which the frequency of atomic collisions matches the electron’s internal clock frequency. A model is presented to show the compatibility of our data with the de Broglie hypothesis.
- Publication:
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Foundations of Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10701-008-9225-1
- Bibcode:
- 2008FoPh...38..659C
- Keywords:
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- Channeling;
- Silicon;
- Electrons;
- Quantum mechanics