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Extension of the Shirafuji model for Massive Particles with Spin

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We extend the Shirafuji model for massless particles with primary spacetime coordinates and composite four-momenta to a model for massive particles with spin and electric charge. The primary variables in the model are the spacetime four-vector, four scalars describing spin and charge degrees of freedom as well as a pair of Weyl spinors. The geometric description proposed in this paper provides an intermediate step between the free purely twistorial model in two-twistor space in which both spacetime and four-momenta vectors are composite, and the standard particle model, where both spacetime and four-momenta vectors are elementary. We quantize the model and find explicitly the first-quantized wavefunctions describing relativistic particles with mass, spin and electric charge. The spacetime coordinates in the model are not commutative; this leads to a wavefunction that depends only on one covariant projection of the spacetime four-vector (covariantized time coordinate) defining plane wave solutions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0510266,
  title  = {Extension of the Shirafuji model for Massive Particles with Spin},
  author = {S. Fedoruk and A. Frydryszak and J. Lukierski and C. Miquel-Espanya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0510266},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 27 pages, appendix.sty, newlfont.sty (attached)