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arxiv: 1804.00530 · v2 · pith:NDTUEDSTnew · submitted 2018-03-29 · ⚛️ physics.gen-ph

Acoustically driven x-ray emission and matter collapse in lead

classification ⚛️ physics.gen-ph
keywords leadwavesfoilholemattermechanismshockx-ray
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The action of focused underwater weak shock waves on a lead sample is revealed to be not restricted by a mechanical influence only. A strong unexpected x-ray emission was registered from the lead foil exposed to shock waves ({\it sound into x-rays}) which were extremely adiabatic compared to processes of x-ray generation. The lead foil, exposed to shock waves, lost a part of its area having the shape of a polygonal hole of the size of $\sim 2mm$. The missing polygon of lead foil looks as a delicately removed part with no damage at the hole surroundings as it should be after a mechanical breaking. This points to a non-mechanical mechanism of hole formation. That missing polygonal lead matter seems to be "disappeared" because the total lead volume was reduced by that amount after exposure to acoustic waves ({\it matter collapse}). Both paradoxical phenomena cannot be explained by a combination of known effects and a fundamentally new mechanism is required to underlie them. The concept of electron anomalous states, which encouraged the experiments and specified main features of them, is likely that mechanism.

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