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Electromagnetic and gravitational radiation from massless particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-16 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We demonstrate that full description of both electromagnetic and gravitational radiation from massless particles lies outside the scope of classical theory. Synchrotron radiation from the hypothetical massless charge in quantum electrodynamics in external magnetic field has finite total power while the corresponding classical formula diverges in the massless limit. We argue that in both cases classical theory describes correctly only the low-frequency part of the spectra, while the total power diverges because of absence of the UV frequency cutoff. Failure of description of gravitational radiation from massless particles by classical General Relativity may be considered as another appeal for quantization of gravity apart from the problem of singularities.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06826,
  title  = {Electromagnetic and gravitational radiation from massless particles},
  author = {D. V. Gal'tsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06826},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Talk given at XIIth International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ICGAC-12), June 28-July 5, 2015, PFUR, Moscow, Russia. To be published in the Proceedings, World Scientific, Singapore

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