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A bounded source cannot emit a unipolar electromagnetic wave
Kwang-Je Kim, Kirk T. McDonald, Gennady V. Stupakov +1
We show that a bounded source cannot produce a unipolar electromagnetic pulse. As a consequence, there are no three-dimensional electromagnetic solitons in vacuum.
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Classical Radiation Processes in the Weizsacker-Williams Approximation
Max S. Zolotorev, Kirk T. McDonald
The main features of radiation by relativistic electrons are well approximated in the Weizsacker-Williams method of virtual quanta. This method is best known for its application to…