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Limits on the low energy antinucleon-nucleus annihilations from the Heisenberg principle

A. Bianconi, G. Bonomi, M. P. Bussa, E. Lodi Rizzini, L. Venturelli, A. Zenoni

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0003006

Abstract

We show that the quantum uncertainty principle puts some limits on the effectiveness of the antinucleon-nucleus annihilation at very low energies. This is caused by the fact that the realization a very effective short-distance reaction process implies information on the relative distance of the reacting particles. Some quantitative predictions are possible on this ground, including the approximate A-independence of antinucleon-nucleus annihilation rates.

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