Singularity-free model of electric charge in physical vacuum: non-zero spatial extent and mass generation

• Authors: Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Konstantin Zloshchastiev
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We propose a model of a spinless electrical charge as a self-consistent field configuration of the electromagnetic (EM) field interacting with a physical vacuum effectively described by the logarithmic quantum Bose liquid. We show that, in contrast to the EM field propagating in a trivial vacuum, a regular solution does exist, and both its mass and spatial extent emerge naturally from dynamics. It is demonstrated that the charge and energy density distribution acquire Gaussian-like form. The solution in the logarithmic model is stable and energetically favourable, unlike that obtained in a model with a quartic (Higgs-like) potential.

Keywords

EN

particle model; electric charge; divergence-free solution; mass generation mechanism; superfluid vacuum

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 325-335

Dates

published

1 - 3 - 2013

online

28 - 3 - 2013

Contributors

author

Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

author

Konstantin Zloshchastiev

• School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-012-0159-z