Output details
15 - General Engineering
Lancaster University
Article title
Charged relativistic fluids and non-linear electrodynamics
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Europhysics Letters
Article number
20009
Volume number
89
Issue number
2
First page of article
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ISSN of journal
0295-5075
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
High fields in vacuo lead to a breakdown of classical electrodynamics due to pair creation. It has been surmised that a breakdown of the classical linear vacuum Maxwell equations arises before advent of quantum effects, the occurrence of which would herald a revolution in quantum electrodynamics. The non-linear electrodynamics of Born-Infeld has received little experimental attention. This paper sought to design an experiment with unambiguous support for the theory, predicting that light travels at less than 3 x 10^8 m/s in a vacuum containing a static magnetic field. Experimentalists at Birmingham, CERN and Cockcroft are currently exploring this experimentally.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
D - Engineering of Microwaves, Terahertz & Light
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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