Antimatter Gravity: Second Quantization and Lagrangian Formalism
arXiv:2003.08733 · doi:10.3390/physics2030022
Abstract
The application of the CPT theorem to an apple falling on Earth leads to the description of an anti-apple falling on anti-Earth (not on Earth). On the microscopic level, the Dirac equation in curved space-time simultaneously describes spin-1/2 particles and their antiparticles coupled to the same curved space-time metric (e.g., the metric describing the gravitational field of the Earth). On the macroscopic level, the electromagnetically and gravitationally coupled Dirac equation therefore describes apples and anti-apples, falling on Earth, simultaneously. A particle-to-antiparticle transformation of the gravitationally coupled Dirac equation therefore yields information on the behavior of "anti-apples on Earth". However, the problem is exacerbated by the fact that the operation of charge conjugation is much more complicated in curved as opposed to flat space-time. Our treatment is based on second-quantized field operators and uses the Lagrangian formalism. As an additional helpful result, prerequisite to our calculations, we establish the general form of the Dirac adjoint in curved space-time. On the basis of a theorem, we refute the existence of tiny, but potentially important, particle-antiparticle symmetry breaking terms whose possible existence has been investigated in the literature. Consequences for antimatter gravity experiments are discussed.
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