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The energy loss of free magnetic poles in passing through matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. Bauer
E. Bauer
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Department of Theoretical PhysicsThe University, Liverpool
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Abstract

Dirac has shown that in quantum theory free magnetic poles are possible only if their pole strength g is an integral multiple of ℏc/(2e) = 137e/2. The ionization produced by such particles is calculated by the classical impact parameter method and also by quantal perturbation theory; at sufficiently large velocities the rate of loss of energy of poles of unit strength is g2/e2 ≑ 5000 times as large as that of an electron of the same velocity; at low velocities the energy loss of a monopole decreases steadily without rising to a maximum as in the case of electric particles.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , October 1951 , pp. 777 - 789
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

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