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Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 21 No. 6 (1959) pp. 818-826

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On the Origin of the Electron Mass

Yasuhisa Katayama, Mituo Taketani and Jorge Leal Ferreira

Instituto de Física Teórica, São Paulo, Brasil

(Received February 12, 1959)

Abstract:

Some possibilities for understanding the dynamical origin of the electron mass are examined. As the present formulation of quantum-electrodynamics does not give, within its region of validity, a satisfactory answer to this problem, two possibilities for obtaining the electron mass, starting from a zero bare mass, are presented. The first one is a nonlocal modification of quantum-electrodynamics, which may be closely related to the electron structure. The other is to get the electron mass from the masses of other elementary particles through weak interactions, because at the high energy region discussed here, the weak interactions become more predominant compared to the electromagnetic interaction. These possibilities can be examined by improvements in experiments. The former depends on the experimental accuracies of the electron moment and the latter is related to the degree of coexistence of S, P, T couplings in coexistence with the main V and A couplings in β-decays and/or to the degree of the deviation from the V-A combination in the muon-electron interaction.


URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/21/818/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.21.818

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