TITLE:
The Zitterbewegung, Such as It Is, and Etiology of the Corpuscular Speed
AUTHORS:
Rafael Cañete Mesa
KEYWORDS:
Standard Model, Wave Packet, Zitterbewegung, Dirac Equation
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.12 No.2,
April
7,
2026
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we study the Zitterbewegung, as the most anomalous and controversial effect of the Dirac equation. For this purpose, we do not establish a study framework, but we carry out a dissection of the Dirac solution for the velocity operator from a wave optics perspective, which will provide us (such as it is) with all the information about the Zitterbewegung, about the true sense and legality of the solution, and of the Dirac equation itself. In particular, we will obtain that said solution of the Dirac equation is composed of two wave packets coupled through the phase functions, and that it is the destructive and constructive confrontation of their group velocities that will give rise to the classical speed of the particle and the quantum anomalous term, respectively. This coupling is the kinetic aspect of a more general energetic development and of a corpuscular etiology, from which we derive a geometry that will then be an active part of any related phenomenology. A geometry will allow us to uncover some primary questions about physical principles, kinetic energy, spin and velocities, as well as differentiate between wave packets, photons and particles.