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Casimir energy of massless fermions in the Slab-bag

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  • 1. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)

Description

The zero-point energy of a massless fermion field in the interior of two parallel plates in a D-dimensional space-time at zero temperature is calculated. In order to regularize the model, a mix between dimensional and zeta function regularization procedure is used and it is founded that the regularized zero-point energy density is finite for any number of space-time dimensions. We present a general expression for the Casimir energy for the fermionic field in such a situation. (author)

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
15 p.
ISSN
0029-3865
Report number
CBPF-NF--020/99

INIS

Country of Publication
Brazil
Country of Input or Organization
Brazil
INIS RN
30055986
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BAG MODEL; CASIMIR EFFECT; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

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Notes
17 refs., 1 fig.; rpaola at lafex.cbpf.br; robson at lafex.cbpf.br; nfuxsvai at lafex.cbpf.br