Radiative corrections to the S-wave dirac equation near a monopole and monopole catalysis of proton decay
The authors study the one-loop radiative correction to the mass operator of an S-wave fermion in the background monopole field and investigate whether it produces an efficient repulsive barrier outside the monopole core. It is shown that the ultraviolet divergency of this mass operator is eliminated by the usual renormalization of the fermion mass and electromagnetic charge in QED. The main result is that the radiative correction due to the interactions of the S-wave fermions with fluctuations of j not equal to O fields give rise to finite and small, i.e., proportional to ..cap alpha.. identical to e/sup 2//4..pi.. amplitude of the reflection of the incoming S-wave and therefore does not lead to any qualitative alterations of the standard mechanism of the monopole catalysis of proton decay.
- Research Organization:
- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 117312, Moscow, 60'th (SU)
- OSTI ID:
- 7193380
- Journal Information:
- Int. J. Mod. Phys. A; (United States), Vol. 2:6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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DIRAC EQUATION
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PROTONS
PARTICLE DECAY
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MASS FORMULAE
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QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES
BARYONS
CORRECTIONS
DECAY
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
ELECTRODYNAMICS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
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FIELD THEORIES
HADRONS
MONOPOLES
NUCLEONS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
RENORMALIZATION
WAVE EQUATIONS
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