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The degeneracy of the free Dirac equation

  • 1. Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research, Bombay (India)
  • 2. Melbourne Univ., Parkville (Australia). School of Physics
  • 3. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  • 4. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, BJ (China). Electron LINAC Dept.

Description

Parity-mixed solutions of the free Dirac equation with the same 4-momentum are considered. The first-order EM energy has an electric dipole moment term whose value depends on the mixing angle. Further implications of this degeneracy to perturbative calculations are discussed. It is argued that the properties of the Dirac equation with the Coulomb potential can be used to decide the mixing angle, which should be zero

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; OSTI as DE92004706; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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11 p.
Report number
SSCL--498

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC35-89ER40486
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).
Secondary number(s)
UM-P--91/49.