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The particle internal clock conjectured by de Broglie in 1924 was investigated in a channeling experiment using a beam of ∼80 MeV electrons aligned along the 〈110〉 direction of a 1 μm thick silicon crystal. Some of the electrons undergo a rosette motion, in which they interact with a single atomic row. When the electron energy is finely varied, the rate of electron transmission at 0° shows a 8% dip within 0.5% of the resonance energy, 80.874 MeV, for which the frequency of atomic collisions matches the electron’s internal clock frequency. A model is presented to show the compatibility of our data with the de Broglie hypothesis.
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Catillon, P., Cue, N., Gaillard, M.J. et al. A Search for the de Broglie Particle Internal Clock by Means of Electron Channeling. Found Phys 38, 659–664 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-008-9225-1
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