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Science of Nuclear Fusion: Insights and Ideas
Johann Rafelski, Andrew Steinmetz, Andrew J. Steinmetz
Advances in several physics domains open up novel paths to smaller scale, higher energy density opportunities to advance small systems for nuclear fusion. Here we survey both legac…
Short Note on Spin Magnetization in QGP
Andrew Steinmetz, Johann Rafelski
We outline the theory of spin magnetization applicable to the QGP (quark-gluon plasma) epoch of the Universe. We show that a fully spin-polarized single flavor up-quark gas could g…
Quarks to Cosmos: Particles and Plasma in Cosmological evolution
Johann Rafelski, Jeremiah Birrell, Christopher Grayson +2
We describe in the context of the particle physics (PP) standard model (SM) `PP-SM' the understanding of the primordial properties and composition of the Universe in the temperatur…
Fermi-Dirac Integrals in Degenerate Regimes: A Novel Asymptotic Expansion
Jeremiah Birrell, Martin Formanek, Andrew Steinmetz +2
We characterize in a novel manner the physical properties of the low temperature Fermi gas in the degenerate domain as a function of temperature and chemical potential. For the fir…
Modern topics in relativistic spin dynamics and magnetism
Andrew Steinmetz
Magnetism is a rich subject touching all aspects of physics. My goal with this dissertation is to explore spin and magnetic moments in \emph{relativistic} mechanics from both a qua…
Dynamic fermion flavor mixing through transition dipole moments
Johann Rafelski, Andrew Steinmetz, Cheng Tao Yang
We show that Majorana neutrino flavor mixing can be driven by transition dipole moments in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. We demonstrate the sensitivity of the ro…
Matter-antimatter origin of cosmic magnetism
Andrew Steinmetz, Cheng Tao Yang, Johann Rafelski
We explore the hypothesis that the abundant presence of relativistic antimatter (positrons) in the primordial universe is the source of the intergalactic magnetic fields we observe…
A short survey of matter-antimatter evolution in the primordial universe
Johann Rafelski, Jeremiah Birrell, Andrew Steinmetz +1
We offer a survey of the matter-antimatter evolution within the primordial Universe. While the origin of the tiny matter-antimatter asymmetry has remained one of the big questions…
Motion of classical charged particles with magnetic moment in external plane-wave electromagnetic fields
Martin Formanek, Andrew Steinmetz, Johann Rafelski
We study the motion of a charged particle with magnetic moment in external electromagnetic fields utilizing covariant unification of Gilbertian and Amperian descriptions of particl…
Radiation reaction friction: Resistive material medium
Martin Formanek, Andrew Steinmetz, Johann Rafelski
We explore a novel method of describing the radiation friction of particles traveling through a mechanically resistive medium. We introduce a particle motion induced matter warping…
Classical neutral point particle in linearly polarized EM plane wave field
Martin Formanek, Andrew Steinmetz, Johann Rafelski
We study a covariant classical model of neutral point particles with magnetic moment interacting with external electromagnetic fields. Classical dynamical equations which reproduce…
Magnetic Dipole Moment in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Andrew Steinmetz, Martin Formanek, Johann Rafelski
We investigate relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM) for particles with arbitrary magnetic moment. We compare two well known RQM models: a) Dirac equation supplemented with an incre…
Strong fields and neutral particle magnetic moment dynamics
Martin Formanek, Stefan Evans, Johann Rafelski +2
Interaction of magnetic moment of point particles with external electromagnetic fields experiences unresolved theoretical and experimental discrepancies. In this work we point out…
Relativistic Dynamics of Point Magnetic Moment
Johann Rafelski, Martin Formanek, Andrew Steinmetz
The covariant motion of a classical point particle with magnetic moment in the presence of (external) electromagnetic fields is revisited. We are interested in understanding Lorent…