Scattering of spinning test particles by plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/19/312zbMATH Open1012.83004arXivgr-qc/0203038OpenAlexW2002913339MaRDI QIDQ4789666FDOQ4789666

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Publication date: 13 May 2003

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations for the motion of electrically neutral massive spinning particles are analysed, in the pole-dipole approximation, in an Einstein-Maxwell plane-wave background spacetime. By exploiting the high symmetry of such spacetimes these equations are reduced to a system of tractable ordinary differential equations. Classes of exact solutions are given, corresponding to particular initial conditions for the directions of the particle spin relative to the direction of the propagating background fields. For Einstein-Maxwell pulses a scattering cross section is defined that reduces in certain limits to those associated with the scattering of scalar and Dirac particles based on classical and quantum field theoretic techniques. The relative simplicity of the MPD approach and its use of macroscopic spin distributions suggests that it may have advantages in those astrophysical situations that involve strong classical gravitational and electromagnetic environments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203038

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zbMATH Keywords

test particleselectromagnetic wavesplane gravitational

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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