Quantization of second-order Lagrangians: The Fokker-Wheeler-Feynman model of electrodynamics
Abstract
The consequences of quantizing the Fokker-Wheeler-Feynman model of electrodynamics, treating the Lagrangian via its acceleration-dependent (1/c) power-series representation, is examined using recently validated methods. An exact treatment of this acceleration dependence yields, under certain circumstances, high-energy resonant modes. In the past, such modes have been assumed unphysical and have been removed by perturbative or order-reduction techniques. However, these modes appear to be of physical significance. This conclusion follows because this completely ab initio calculation, with no adjustable parameters, has a number of successes. It provides a description for resonances observed in the electron-positron emission from heavy-ion collisions, in particular, and in diproton collisions and, possibly, in other collision experiments as well.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- October 1992
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- Bibcode:
- 1992PhRvA..46.3637M
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Bz;
- 02.90.+p;
- 03.20.+i;
- Other topics in mathematical methods in physics