Helicity of spin-extended chiral particles

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

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

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 $ch{i}^o$ 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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zbMATH Keywords

helicitychiral particlePoincaré invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

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