Electromagnetic Phenomena   2003, Vol.3, No.1(9)  49-55

 

PACS №: 03.70.+k; 11.10.-z; 14.60.pq and 41.20.-q

Lehnert B.

Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

>Neutral Particle States of an Extended Electromagnetic Theory

Abstract

Steady electrically neutral axisymmetric equilibria of an earlier developed extended electromagnetic theory are considered, as being based on a nonzero electric field divergence in the vacuum and combined with the requirement of Lorentz invariance. Thereby the general solutions of these states are given in terms of a generating function. It is found that electrically neutral particle-like states result not only from the convergent generating functions being considered earlier, but also from divergent such functions which are top-bottom antisymmetric with respect to the midplane of the axisymmetric geometry.

The models of the present theory can at least reproduce part of the general features of the neutrino in a state at rest, such as vanishing integrated values of the electric charge and the magnetic moment, angular momentum, and a very small rest mass. The model with a convergent generating function further results in a large effective neutrino radius as compared to that of a nucleon, whereas a divergent function leads to a very small such radius. Both cases and their combination may become reconcilable with the extremely long observed mean free path of neutrinos in solid matter, but this requires further consideration.

 
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