Charge of the massive leptons

Technical Report · Mon Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1434466· OSTI ID:1434466

Lestone, John Paul ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

A simple picture of the massive leptons emerges by invoking a πλ² cross section for vacuum virtual photons to stimulate an isolated lepton to emit an additional virtual photon. This reaction mechanism leads to the storage of a lepton’s energy and momentum in the surrounding cloud of virtual photons. The stimulated-emission process allows for the exchange of virtual photons between a pair of leptons, and thus an estimate the fine-structure constant. A simple sharp low-energy cutoff for the exchanged photons, associated with near-field effects, results in a calculated charge of 1.65 x 10^–19 C. The discrepancy with experiment might be reduced by including additional computational complexity.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Self funded; USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1434466
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-18-23481
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

fine-structure constant
fundamental charge