Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis Seminar

Date: April 29, 2022

Time: 1:50PM - 2:50PM

Location: BLOC 302

Speaker: Luther Rinehart, TAMU

Title: Uniform acceleration radiation with a Proca field

Abstract: I will present results of a study of radiation from a uniformly accelerating particle coupled to a Proca field. The fact that a Proca field allows non-conservation of charge facilitates the use of regularizations where the charge changes in time. Using several classical methods, I obtain expressions for the field, and expressions for the rate of emitted energy and particle number. I also obtain general expressions for the quantity of radiation when the charge is an arbitrary function of time, both when the charge is at rest, and when it is uniformly accelerating.