Can the mirror world explain the ortho-positronium lifetime puzzle?

Abstract

We suggest that the discrepant lifetime measurements of ortho-positronium can be explained by ortho-positronium oscillations into mirror ortho-positronium. This explanation can be tested in future vacuum experiments.

arXiv commentabout 6 pages, Latex, to appear in Phys.Lett.B

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