Abstract
Abstract
It has been recently shown that a chiral molecule accelerates linearly along a spatially uniform magnetic field, as a result of the parity-time symmetry breaking induced in its QED self-interaction. In this work we extend that result to fundamental particles which present EW self-interaction, in which case parity is violated by the EW interaction itself. In particular, we demonstrate that, in a spatially uniform and adiabatically time-varying magnetic field, an unpolarized proton coupled to the leptonic vacuum acquires a kinetic momentum antiparallel to the magnetic field, whereas virtual leptons gain an equivalent Casimir momentum in the opposite direction. That momentum is proportional to the magnetic field and to the square of Fermi's constant. We prove that the kinetic energy of the proton is a magnetic energy which constitutes a Doppler-shift correction to its EW self-energy.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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