TITLE:
Quantum-Optical Foundations of Massive and Massless Particles
AUTHORS:
Burke Ritchie
KEYWORDS:
Divergence-Free Electrodynamics, Radiant Aspect, Material Aspect, Nuclear Binding
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.5 No.9,
June
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: A source
of the divergences in QED is proposed, and a theory in which the Lamb shift and
electron’s anomalous magnetic moment are calculated free of divergences is
reviewed. It is shown that Dirac’s equation for a relativistic electron can be
inferred from a Lorentz invariant having the form of the Lorentz gauge
equation,
, on identifying a
carrier-wave energy
with the electron’s rest mass energy mc2, the vector potential’s
polarization vector with Pauli’s vector σ, and the envelops of
the scalar and vector potentials with the four components of Dirac’s vector
wave function. The same methodology is used to infer relativistic equations of
motion having the Dirac form for a neutrino accompanied by ab initio neutrino-matter interaction terms. Then it is shown that
the theory, which comprises Dirac’s equation plus the relativistic equations of
motion for the neutrino, supports binding on a nuclear scale of energy and
length. The experimentally observed weakness of the interaction energy of free
neutrinos and matter is due to the smallness of the rate of tunnelling of free
neutrinos through a potential barrier which exists in the interaction of free
neutrinos and matter. Models are also proposed for the proton and neutron, and
good agreement is obtained for the neutron-proton rest mass energy difference
in view of the approximations made to solve the appropriate equations of
motion.