PARTICLE MOTION IN A YANG-MILLS FIELD - WONGS EQUATIONS AND SPIN-1 2 ANALOGS/

Authors
LINDEN N MACFARLANE AJ VANHOLTEN JW
Citation
N. Linden et al., PARTICLE MOTION IN A YANG-MILLS FIELD - WONGS EQUATIONS AND SPIN-1 2 ANALOGS/, Czechoslovak journal of Physics, 46(2-3), 1996, pp. 209-215
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Czechoslovak journal of Physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00114626
Volume
46
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
209 - 215
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-4626(1996)46:2-3<209:PMIAYF>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
A complete, straightforward and natural Lagrangian description is give n for the classical non-relativistic dynamics of a particle with colou r or internal symmetry degrees of freedom moving in a background Yang- Mills field. This provides a new simple Lagrangian formalism for Wong' s equations for spinless particles, and presents also their generalisa tion, in gauge covariant form for spin-1/2 particles, within a complet e Lagrangian formalism.