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The interaction of point particles with charged fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

K. J. Le Couteur
K. J. Le Couteur
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St John's CollegeCambridge
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1. The method introduced by Dirac (1) in his classical theory of the interaction of an electron with an electromagnetic field has since been extended to the interaction of point particles with more general wave fields, such as occur in the neutral meson theory. Bhabha (2, 3) considered the scattering of neutral mesons by nucleons and gave arguments to show that typically quantum-mechanical effects should be unimportant if the energy of the incident meson is less than the rest energy of a nucleon, so that a classical theory with damping is appropriate to such problems. Now only the charged mesons are observable, and therefore a discussion of the classical theory of the interaction of a nucleon with a charge-bearing field is desirable. Apart from a paper by Fierz (4) which omits the dipole-like coupling terms, there is little published work on this subject.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1949 , pp. 429 - 440
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1949

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