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If a particle is a point of high intensity in a quantum field, how can it have charge?
The charge of a fundamental particle is a mysterious but obvious and well-known property of every non-neutral particle.
I can understand how, if a particle is an object, or thing, for want of a ...
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What's the deepest reason why QCD bound states have integer charge?
What's the deepest reason why QCD bound states have integer electric charge, i.e. equal to an integer times the electron charge?
Given that the quarks have the fractional electric charges they do, ...
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Showing that electron and positrons have the same absolute charge
In Zee's quantum field theory in a nutshell, 2nd edition, pg 551 he has the charge of a Dirac field written as
$Q=\int {d^3p \over (2\pi)^3(E_p/m)} \sum_s ...
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Charge and the Dirac field
In Zee's quantum field theory in a nutshell, 2nd edition, pg 550 he has
$Q=\int {d^3p \over (2\pi)^3(E_p/m)} \sum_s \{b^\dagger(p,s)b(p,s)-d^\dagger(p,s)d(p,s)\}$
showing clearly that $b$ ...
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What makes *electric* charge special (wrt. CPT theorem)?
I'm wondering why the 'C' in CPT - charge conjugation - refers specifically to electric charge. Of course you could say that C is just defined as $e^+ \leftrightarrow e^-$... but there has to be ...
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Charge Analog of the Higgs Boson?
Since mass can be given to particles via the interaction with the Higgs Field could there be a "Charger Field" that supplies particles with charge? Possibly this would require two different "charger ...
