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Long-Lived Positronium and AGN Jets

Published:2012-09-24 Issue: Volume:2012 Page:1-6
ISSN:2090-4746
Container-title:ISRN Astronomy and Astrophysics
language:en
Short-container-title:ISRN Astronomy and Astrophysics

Author:

Giblin John T.¹²³,Shertzer Janine⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022, USA

2. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 2Y5

3. Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

4. Department of Physics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610, USA

5. ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

We suggest that stable states of positronium might exist in the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Electrons and positrons are created near the accretion disks of supermassive black holes at the centers of AGN and are accelerated along magnetic field lines while within the Alfvèn radius. The conditions in this region are ideal for the creation of bound states of positronium which are stable against annihilation. Traveling at relativistic speeds along the jet, the helical magnetic field enables the atoms to survive for great distances.

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/archive/2012/848476.pdf

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