NO<sub>2</sub>Excited State Properties Revisited: An Effect of Extra Compactified Dimensions

作     者：Hans-Georg Weber 

作者机构：Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Einsteinufer 37 Berlin Germany Sudetenstr. 16 Amorbach Germany 

出 版 物：《Journal of Modern Physics》 (现代物理（英文）)

年 卷 期：2017年第8卷第11期

页      面：1749-1761页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Extra Dimensions Compactification Space Dark Matter Molecular Physics 

摘      要：Experiments on NO2 reveal a substructure underlying the optically excited isolated hyperfine structure (hfs) levels of the molecule. This substructure is seen in a change of the symmetry of the excited molecule and is represented by the two “states and of a hfs-level. Optical excitation induces a transition from the ground state of the molecule to the excited state . However, the molecule evolves from to in a time τ0 ≈ 3 μs. Both and have the radiative lifetime τR ≈ 40 μs, but and differ in the degree of polarization of the fluorescence light. Zeeman coherence in the magnetic sublevels is conserved in the transition →, and optical coherence of and is able to affect (inversion effect) the transition →. This substructure, which is not caused by collisions with baryonic matter or by intramolecular dynamics in the molecule, contradicts our knowledge on an isolated hfs-level. We describe the experimental results using the assumption of extra dimensions with a compactification space of the size of the molecule, in which dark matter affects the nuclei by gravity. In , all nuclei of NO2 are confined in a single compactification space, and in , the two O nuclei of NO2 are in two different compactification spaces. Whereas and represent stable configurations of the nuclei,represents an unstable configuration because the vibrational motion in shifts one of the two O nuclei periodically off the common compactification space, enabling dark matter interaction to stimulate the transition →with the rate (τ0)−1. We revisit experimental results, which were not understood before, and we give a consistent description of these results based on the above assumption.