Parity Doubling, Zitterbewegung, and Rest Mass for Spin 1
| dc.creator | Chew, Geoffrey F. | |
| dc.creator | Stapp, Henry P. | |
| dc.date | 2001-11-27 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:12:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:12:45Z | |
| dc.description | A 6-component "wave function" (not field, but S-matrix interpretable) for a massive spin-1 particle parallels the Dirac "chirality-doubled" 4-component wave function for a spin-1/2 particle, by pairing two wave functions for same spin but opposite "handedness". The correlated "opposite-parity" pair of complex 3-vectors defines a fluctuating spin-correlated lightlike ``internal velocity" as well as an independent "external rapidity". Extension from fermions to vector bosons of the velocity-fluctuation ("zitterbewegung") interpretation of rest mass weakens theoretical motivation for elementary scalar bosons. | |
| dc.description | This paper shows how a generalization of Dirac's method of generating a finite velocity, hence nonzero mass, of a spin 1/2 particle built out of massless components works also for spin-1 particles, without any need to introduce spin-zero companions | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111250 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111250 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51014 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Parity Doubling, Zitterbewegung, and Rest Mass for Spin 1 | |
| dc.type | text |