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A sum rule for charged elementary particles

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: There may be a link between the quantum properties of the vacuum and the parameters describing the properties of light propagation, culminating in a sum over all types of elementary particles existing in Nature weighted only by their squared charges and independent of their masses. The estimate for that sum is of the order of 100.

Source: The European Physical Journal D

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2013-30577-8

Authors: Gerd Leuchs, Luis L. Sánchez-Soto

Institutions: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Language: English

Topic: Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,790

OpenAlex ID: W2002890689