Beta Decay as a Virtual Particle Interaction Analogous to Hawking Radiation
Ray Fleming
Keywords: Hawking Radiation, Beta Decay, Orbital Transitions, Orbital Clouds, Zero-Point Energy, Zero-Point Field, Quantum Field Theory
The existing theory of the weak interaction has some troublesome issues with conservation of energy and limited range. Beta decay theory would be more complete if there were a mechanism that places the electron or positron decay product farther from the proton or neutron so that they would not be immediately reabsorbed. This is readily accomplished by a Hawking radiation type interaction between a virtual electron-positron pair and a proton or neutron and this type of interaction readily accounts for each form of beta decay.
