Inertial Mass and Vacuum Fluctuations in Quantum Field Theory
| dc.creator | Modanese, Giovanni | |
| dc.date | 2000-09-07 | |
| dc.date | 2003-01-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:10:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:10:28Z | |
| dc.description | Motivated by recent works on the origin of inertial mass, we revisit the relationship between the mass of charged particles and zero-point electromagnetic fields. To this end we first introduce a simple model comprising a scalar field coupled to stochastic or thermal electromagnetic fields. Then we check if it is possible to start from a zero bare mass in the renormalization process and express the finite physical mass in terms of a cut-off. In scalar QED this is indeed possible, except for the problem that all conceivable cut-offs correspond to very large masses. For spin-1/2 particles (QED with fermions) the relation between bare mass and renormalized mass is compatible with the observed electron mass and with a finite cut-off, but only if the bare mass is not zero; for any value of the cut-off the radiative correction is very small. | |
| dc.description | LaTeX, 5 pages, 1 figure. v4: final version accepted for publication in Found. Phys. Lett | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0009046 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0009046 | |
| dc.identifier | Found.Phys.Lett. 16 (2003) 135-141 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/50227 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Inertial Mass and Vacuum Fluctuations in Quantum Field Theory | |
| dc.type | text |