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THE ORTHOPOSITRONIUM DECAY PUZZLE AND PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
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THE ORTHOPOSITRONIUM DECAY PUZZLE AND PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
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The discrepancy between the experimental decay rate of orthopositronium (o-Ps) and the QED theoretical prediction can be solved by invoking decays of o-Ps into exotic particles with branching ratios of the order of 10^{-3}. We show that considerations based on primordial nucleosynthesis and effective Lagrangians place a very stringent upper bound: B = Gamma(o-Ps -> ``exotic'' + ...)/Gamma(o-Ps) <= 2 x 10^{-15}, ruling out the exotic decay solution to the puzzle.
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