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Single-Particle Electrodynamics - Assassination Science

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and the spin renormalisation term for the charged magnetic dipole moment,<br />

− 2 3 qµη 1 ˙σ.<br />

The good news is that they are both there. The bad news is that they are<br />

both precisely twice as large as they are supposed to be, based on the results<br />

found in Chapter 5: we found there that<br />

and<br />

m µ e.m. = µ 2 η ′ 3<br />

s qµ<br />

e.m. = 1 3 qµη 1σ<br />

respectively. Now, the author has checked his algebraic computations of these<br />

quantities on numerous occasions, and cannot find any errors of mathematics.<br />

Keeping this possibility, of course, always in the back of our minds, let us<br />

consider how this result could possibly be explained physically, if it is in<br />

fact mathematically sound.<br />

The author’s only hypothesis, at the present<br />

time, is that perhaps we are feeling the ramifications of the subtle method<br />

of derivation of the dipole equations of motion in Chapter 4. The author<br />

does not know. The terms are twice as large as they should be. Suggestions<br />

welcome.<br />

We now turn to a property of the final equations that could not quite be<br />

termed a success, but rather a lack of a possible failure: there are no terms<br />

involving η 2 at all. Again, mathematically speaking, this is non-trivial: some<br />

of the expressions that are used to obtain the final results are as high as<br />

the minus-fourth power in r d ; numerous rd<br />

−2 terms appear in the penultimate<br />

equations, but they all cancel. That this is a good thing can be seen on<br />

two grounds: Firstly, Bhabha and Corben found numerous terms involving<br />

ε −3<br />

and ε −1 , but only a few involving ε −2 ; perhaps these cancel for the<br />

assumptions of this thesis. Secondly, and more importantly, there were in<br />

fact no mechanical self-field quantities computed in Chapter 5 that depended<br />

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