Helicity of spin-extended chiral particles
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-04-05 v5 Other Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The helicity of a free massless relativistic particle, , is generalized, for a particle in an electromagnetic field, to , where is the modified kinetic energy. Both and coincide and are conserved for minimal coupling (gyromagnetic ratio ) but are different and neither of them is conserved when the coupling is non-minimal, , generating non-zero effective mass. For a chiral particle with in a constant electric field both helicities converge asymptotically to the same value. Helicity is also conserved for minimal gravitational coupling.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.02188,
title = {Helicity of spin-extended chiral particles},
author = {M. Elbistan and C. Duval and P. A. Horvathy and P. -M. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02188},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Published version, slightly extended. 18 pages, 4 figures