Particle motion in a Yang-Mills field: Wong's equations and spin-1/2 analogues

N Linden*, AJ Macfarlane, JW vanHolten

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Abstract

A complete, straightforward and natural Lagrangian description is given for the classical non-relativistic dynamics of a particle with colour 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 generalisation, in gauge covariant form for spin-1/2 particles, within a complete Lagrangian formalism.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)209-215
Number of pages7
JournalCzechoslovak Journal of Physics
Volume46
Issue number2-3
Publication statusPublished - 1996
Event4th Colloquium on Quantum Groups and Physics - PRAGUE, Czech Republic
Duration: 22 Jun 199524 Jun 1995

Keywords

  • CLASSICAL MECHANICS
  • SUPERSYMMETRY

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