Are neutral Goldstone bosons initiating very energetic air showers and anomalous multiple-core structure as a component of cosmic rays?

We consider two recently accentuated, unusual empirical results concerning cosmic-ray events at high energies. We show that the possibility for a correlated explanation is provided by new dynamics which arises from collisions of a neutral Goldstone boson as a component of the highest-energy cosmic rays.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Some comments adde

Dark-matter particles and baryons from inflation and spontaneous CP violation in the early universe

We present aspects of a model which attempts to unify the creation of cold dark matter, a CP-violating baryon asymmetry, and also a small, residual vacuum energy density, in the early universe. The model contains a primary scalar (inflaton) field and a primary pseudoscalar field, which are initially related by a cosmological, chiral symmetry. The nonzero vacuum expectation value of the pseudoscalar field spontaneously breaks CP invariance.Comment: 7 pages, appendix adde

On the possible dark-matter content of QSO's and of compact, very massive entities in the nuclei of galaxies: a metastable particle with mass of about 10^10 GeV

We examine some general astrophysical results which can be related to the hypothesis that very heavy, metastable particles constitute compact, very massive central entities in QSO's and the core of galaxies. The mass and lifetime have been calculated in detail previously: the mass is about 10^{10}\GeV; the lifetime is \simgt 10^{21} \sec. The specific decay gives rise to a new source of very large amounts of energy in radiation. The essence of the ideas discussed in this paper is that very massive, metastable dark matter constitutes entities near to black-hole conditions, and that it is decay which provides a large primary energy source from such entities, as components of QSO's, AGN, and possibly GRB's.Comment: 8 pages, no figure

Effects of a dynamical role for exchanged quarks and nuclear gluons in nuclei: multinucleon correlations in deep-inelastic lepton scattering

It is shown that new data from the HERMES collaboration, as well as all of the earlier improved data from experiments concerning the EMC effect and shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering of leptons from nuclei, provide strong evidence for an explicit dynamical role played by exchanged quarks and nuclear gluons in the basic, tightly-bound systems of three and four nucleons, He3 and He4. This opens the way for specific quark-gluon dynamics instigating multinucleon correlations in nuclei.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes. New forma

Stronger Neutrino Interactions at Extremely High Energies and the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment

A specific model of parity-conserving lepton substructure is considered. We show that a positive-definite contribution to the muon $(g-2)/2$ at the possible level of about $4\times 10^{-9}$, can be related to a significant increase in the interaction cross section for cosmic-ray neutrinos with energies above about $10^{19}$ eV. The additional cross section at $\sim 10^{20}$ eV is calculated to be $\sim 10^{-29}$ cm$^2$, which is about 100 times the standard weak-interaction cross section. The model involves an extremely massive, neutral lepton, with $m_L\cong 2\times 10^6$ GeV fixed by the new contribution to $(g-2)/2$.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure

A new implication for strong interactions if large, direct CP violation in Bbar^0(B^0) -> pi^+pi^- is confirmed

We show that the large, direct CP-violation parameter $A_{\pi\pi}=-C_{\pi\pi}$, reported by the BELLE collaboration in the decays Bbar^0(B^0) -> \pi^+\pi^-, implies an unusual situation in which the presence of a very large difference between two strong-interaction phases ~ -110 deg. plays an essential role. We make the demonstration within a model of strong, two-body quasi-elastic interactions between physical hadrons. The model can accommodate a large difference between two strong-interaction phases, for which it provides a natural enhancement.Comment: 6 pages, no figure