Helicity of spin-extended chiral particles

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2016.03.016zbMATH Open1360.81312arXiv1508.02188OpenAlexW2197737987MaRDI QIDQ526367FDOQ526367

Peter A. Horváthy, Pengming Zhang, Mahmut Elbistan, Christian Duval

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The helicity of a free massless relativistic particle, , is generalized, for a particle in an electromagnetic field, to , where calE is the modified kinetic energy. Both chio and chi coincide and are conserved for minimal coupling (gyromagnetic ratio g=0) but are different and neither of them is conserved when the coupling is non-minimal, geq0, generating non-zero effective mass. For a chiral particle with g=2 in a constant electric field both helicities converge asymptotically to the same value. Helicity is also conserved for minimal gravitational coupling.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02188





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