corner
corner

Phys. Rev. D 50, 5409–5417 (1994)

Detection of particles under a potential barrier

Abstract
No Citing Articles
Download: PDF (651 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

Alexander Vilenkin and Serge Winitzki
Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155

Received 27 April 1994; published in the issue dated 15 October 1994

We introduce a model detector which registers the passage of a particle through the detector location, without substantially perturbing the particle wave function. (The exact time of passage is not determined in such measurements.) We then show that our detector can operate in a classically forbidden reigon and register particles passing through a certain point under a potential barrier. We show that it should be possible to observe the particle’s track under the barrier.

© 1994 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.50.5409
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.50.5409
PACS:
03.65.Bz