Troubles with the radiation reaction in electrodynamics

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-69164-0_26zbMATH Open1390.81653arXiv1610.06981OpenAlexW2580110860MaRDI QIDQ4643448FDOQ4643448

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Publication date: 24 May 2018

Published in: Physical and Mathematical Aspects of Symmetries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The dynamics of a radiating charge is one of the oldest unsettled problems in classical physics. The standard Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac (LAD) equation of motion is known to suffer from several pathologies and ambiguities. This paper briefly reviews these issues, and reports on a new model that fixes these difficulties in a natural way. This model is based on a hypothesis that there is an infinitesimal time delay between action and reaction. This can be related to Feynman's regularization scheme, leading to a quasi-local QED with a natural UV cutoff, hence without the need for renormalization as the divergences are absent. Besides leading to a pathology-free equation of motion, the new model predicts a modification of the Larmor formula that is testable with current and near future ultra-intense lasers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06981

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Space charge waves (78A20)

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• Radiation reaction in higher-order electrodynamics

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