Thanks… and it can be added that Wiki now has an entry for proton decay.
The Holmlid effect can be described as an enhancement mechanism for proton decay… which is a hypothetical form of radioactive decay in which the proton decays into subatomic particles, mainly pions. There is currently no experimental evidence for it, indicating that protons will not decay on their own, but this does not mean they cannot be forced to decay by another outside mechanism, such as Holmlid has found. From: H Ucar Paper is available from http://sci-hub.bz/10.1142/S0218301316500853 ============================= Holmlid: … pions are observed by their characteristic decay times of 12, 52 and 26 ns after impact of relatively weak ns-long laser pulses, as reported previously.
