32,963 research outputs found
Absorption and percolation in the production of J/psi in heavy ion collisions
We present a simple model with string absorption and percolation to describe
the J/psi suppression in heavy ion collisions. The NA50 data are fairly well
explained by the model.Comment: 6 pages, 3 postscript figures include
Generalization of Dirac Non-Linear Electrodynamics, and Spinning Charged Particles
In this note we generalized the Dirac non-linear electrodynamics, by
introducing two potentials (namely, the vector potential A and the
pseudo-vector potential gamma^5 B of the electromagnetic theory with charges
and magnetic monopoles) and by imposing the pseudoscalar part of the product
omega.omega* to be zero, with omega = A + gamma^5 B. We show that the field
equations of such a theory possess a soliton-like solution which can represent
a priori a "charged particle", since it is endowed with a Coulomb field plus
the field of a magnetic dipole. The rest energy of the soliton is finite, and
the angular momentum stored in its electromagnetic field can be identified
--for suitable choices of the parameters-- with the spin of the charged
particle. Thus this approach seems to yield a classical model for the charged
(spinning) particle, which does not meet the problems met by earlier attempts
in the same direction.Comment: standard LaTeX file; 16 pages; it is a corrected version of a paper
appeared in Found. Phys. (issue in honour of A.O.Barut) 23 (1993) 46
- …