TITLE:
Determination of Photon and Elementary Particles Rest Masses Using Maxwell’s Equations and Generalized Potential Dependent Special Relativity
AUTHORS:
Abeer Mohammed Khairy Ahmed, Mashair Ahmed Mohammed Yousif, Zainab Mustapha Kurawa, Zoalnoon Ahmed Abeid Allah Saad, Suhair Salih Makawy, Mohammed Idriss Mohammed, Mubarak Dirar Abd-Alla, Sami Abdalla Elbadawi Mohamed
KEYWORDS:
Photon, Elementary Particles, Maxwell’s Equations, Potential Dependent Special Relativity, Vacuum Energy
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.12 No.8,
August
17,
2020
ABSTRACT: The
nature and origin of the photon and elementary rest masses are some of the
challeng-ing problems that physics face. The approaches used to solve these
problems are complex and time-consuming. Specifically, the photon rest mass
pays attention to theoretical physi-cists. Many experimental works show that the
photon rest mass is non zero. This problem can be solved using generalized
potential dependent special relativity, which has been de-rived using simple
arguments, and Maxwell’s equations, besides the conventional Einstein
energy-momentum relation. The results obtained show that the rest mass of
photons and elementary particles are strongly dependent on the vacuum energy
and a universal con-stant. This result conforms with the models that predict
time decaying vacuum energy as-sociated with production of smaller rest mass
particles followed by larger masses. The two potential dependent mass
expressions conform with the cosmological models that suggest the photon is
generated first by assuming the universe consisting of total constant vacuum
with decaying cosmological part and mass generating part. Using Maxwell’s
equations, beside plank and De Broglie hypothesis together with special
relativity energy-momentum relation the photon rest mass is estimated. It was
shown that the photon rest mass is ex-tremely small compared to the electron
mass.