Relativistic time dilation in an external field

✍ Scribed by J.W. van Holten

• Book ID: 103894441
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 615 KB
• Volume: 182
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90242-i

✦ Synopsis

We demonstrate that relativistic time dilation is a dynamical effect: it depends on interactions. As a result, even stationary particles may experience time dilation, for example in an external field. This happens in particular when there are extra degrees of freedom attached to a particle like spin and a magnetic moment. We illustrate this phenomenon with examples from QED and QCD.