Some notes on the motion of a charged particle in the field of a magnetic monopole

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  • School of Physics,SunYat-Sen University,Guangzhou,Guangdong 510275,China

Received date: 2019-02-18

  Revised date: 2019-06-25

  Online published: 2020-01-22

Abstract

We point out that the simplified calculations in the textbook on the scattering of charged particles by the field of a magnetic monopole and the quantization of electric charge lead to some obvious error. Reexamination of the orbit of the charged particle yields the physical picture: the azimuthal angle  as well as the polar angle θ of the incident particle change after scattering. In particular,for very large impact parameter,the change of  is approximately ±π/2. The change of the angular momentum is calculated and reasonable results are obtained. The scattering cross section is also discussed.

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LIN Qiong-gui . Some notes on the motion of a charged particle in the field of a magnetic monopole[J]. College Physics, 2019 , 38(12) : 10 . DOI: 10.16854 /j.cnki.1000-0712.190055

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