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arxiv: hep-th/0501250 · v1 · submitted 2005-01-31 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph

Retrieving the missed particle-antiparticle degrees of freedom of Dirac particles

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keywords diracparticle-antiparticlesymmetrydegreesfreedommissedoperatorparticle
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The missed particle-antiparticle degrees of freedom are retrieved and the corresponding particle-antiparticle intrinsic space are introduced to study the dynamical symmetry of the Dirac particle. As a result, the particle-antiparticle quantum number appears naturally and the Dirac particle has five quantum numbers instead of four. An anti-symmetry (different from the conventional symmetry) of the Dirac Hamiltonian and a dual symmetry of its eigenfunctions are explored. The $\hat{\kappa}$ operator of the Dirac equation in central potentials is found to be the analog of the helicity operator of the free particle--the alignment of the spin along the angular momentum.

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