The forces acting on high energy protons at collision

✍ Scribed by Arthur Bramley

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1936
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 351 KB
• Volume: 222
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(36)90720-2

✦ Synopsis

The interaction between protons at close collisions has BARTOL RESEARCH been investigated on the basis of the Born-Infeld theory of FOUNDATION electrodynamics. The theory predicts, first, that the Commtmieation No. 93. interaction should have a definite upper limit which depends on the value of the characteristic constant b; secondly, that the magnetic field set up by the moving charges can produce in this interaction, in addition to the terms required by the classical theory of electrodynamics, terms which cannot be neglected in the treatment of close encounters. These terms become of special significance in that problem whenever the relative velocity of the two protons exceeds 3% of the value of the velocity of light. The bearing of these conclusions on the experiments on the scattering of protons by protons is discussed.