SCATTERING PROBLEM OF THE LORENTZ-DIRAC EQUATION: PHENOMENA OF QUASICONFINEMENT OF DIRAC'S MONOPOLES
Nov, 198331 pages
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- Nuovo Cim.A 84 (1984) 1
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- UTHEP-115
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The scattering problem of the Lorentz-Dirac equation is investigated. In particular, the Coulomb scattering of monopoles and also the monopole-charged-particle scattering are considered in detail. In contrast to the cases of the ordinary scatterings without the radiative friction term, it is found that in the scattering process there exists an upper bound of momentum transfer, which is independent of the incident energy and the impact parameter. It is pointed out that such a property of the momentum transfer implies a kind of confinement. In particular, a composite system of Dirac’s magnetic monopoles of the opposite sign cannot be ionized by any single collision process, as long as the binding energy exceeds a critical value, which is determined by the aforementioned upper bound of the momentum transfer.- FIELD EQUATIONS: DIRAC-LORENTZ
- SCATTERING: CHARGED PARTICLE MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
- CHARGED PARTICLE MAGNETIC MONOPOLE: SCATTERING
- COULOMB SCATTERING
- MOMENTUM TRANSFER: UPPER LIMIT
- POSTULATED PARTICLE: MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
- CONFINEMENT: MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
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