caa a22 4500 469031565 CHVBK 20180323132745.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01889713 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01889713 Particle-like configurations of the electromagnetic field: An extension of de Broglie's ideas [Elektronische Daten] [A. Barut, A. Bracken] Localised configurations of the free electromagnetic field are constructed, possessing properties of massive, spinning, relativistic particles. In an inertial frame, each configuration travels in a straight line at constant speed, less than the speed of lightc, while slowly spreading. It eventually decays into pulses of radiation travelling at speedc. Each configuration has a definite rest mass and internal angular momentum, or spin. Each can be of "electric” or "magnetic” type, according as the radial component of the magnetic or electric field vanishes in the rest frame, and each has an "antiparticle.” Any such configuration, of electric or magnetic type, is characterized in part by a set of labels (κ, ω0, σ,l, m), where ω0 is the mean of the angular frequencies of the plane waves making up the configuration, σ is the variance of those frequencies, κ is a positive constant with dimensions of action, andl, m are angular momentum "quantum numbers” withl a positive integer andm an integer such that ‖m‖≤l. The rest energy of the "particle” is κω0, its spin is κ ‖m‖, and its lifetime is of the order of 1/σ. Its antiparticle has ω0 replaced by −ω0. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Barut A. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, Colorado aut Bracken A. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, Colorado aut Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/10(1992-10-01), 1267-1285 0015-9018 22:10<1267 1992 22 10701 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889713 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889713 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Barut A. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, Colorado aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bracken A. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, Colorado aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/10(1992-10-01), 1267-1285 0015-9018 22:10<1267 1992 22 10701 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer