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Run-away Electrons in Relativistic Spin 12 Quantum Electrodynamics

✍ Scribed by F.E. Low


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
413 KB
Volume
266
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-4916

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✦ Synopsis


The existence of run-away solutions in classical and non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics is reviewed. It is shown that the less singular high energy behavior of relativistic spin 1 2 quantum electrodynamics precludes an analogous behavior in that theory. However, a Landau-like [1] anomalous pole in the photon propagation function or in the electron-massive photon foward scattering amplitude would generate a new run-away, characterized by an energy scale |tm e exp(1Â:). This contrasts with the energy scale |tm e Â: associated with the classical and non-relativistic quantum run-aways.