Possible Evidence for the Existence of Antimatter on a Cosmological Scale in the Universe
- 22 November 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 27 (21) , 1469-1472
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.27.1469
Abstract
We present some initial results of a detailed calculation of the cosmological -ray spectrum from matter-antimatter annihilation in the universe. The similarity of the calculated spectrum with the present observations of the -ray background spectrum above 1 MeV suggests that such observations may be evidence of the existence of antimatter on a large scale in the universe.
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