Can We Detect Tachyons Now?

TL;DR

This paper proposes a hypothesis for tachyon production based on Einstein-Maxwell solutions, suggesting experimental conditions and explaining past experimental failures, with implications for future searches using high-energy collisions.

Contribution

It introduces a new hypothesis linking Einstein-Maxwell solutions to tachyon production and outlines specific experimental conditions for detection.

Findings

Tachyon production may occur when high-energy nonpositive particles hit atomic nuclei.

Properly designed experiments could detect tachyons using air showers or colliders.

Failure of previous experiments is explained by the proposed hypothesis.

Abstract

An exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations enables us to construct a hypothesis on the production of tachyons. The hypothesis determines the kinematical relations for the produced tachyon. It also makes possible to estimate the empiric conditions necessary for the production. These conditions can occur when nonpositive subatomic particles of high energy strike atomic nuclei other than the proton. This suggests how experiments to search for tachyons can be performed. According to the hypothesis properly designed experiments with air showers or with the use of the strongest colliders may be successful. Failure of the air shower experiments performed hitherto is explained on the grounds of the hypothesis.