Spin radiation effects in the BMT model of spinning charge

Abstract

The radiation processes emerging as a result of interaction between spin and orbit degrees of freedom of spinning charge are investigated with the use of the Bargmann–Michel–Telegdi (BMT) model. The spin contribution to the self-energy of the ultrarelativistic particle is imaginary and proportional to invariant constructed from the derivatives of the worldline and from the spin. This invariant determines up to negative numerical factor of the QED spin contribution to the imaginary part of the mass shift (MS). Particular cases of crossed, electric and magnetic external fields are considered in detail. The influence of an ideal boundary upon the self-energy of the particle is analyzed for the crossed field case. In the presence of the "mirror" the imaginary part of the MS gets an addition and the nonzero spin dependent real part appears, both however giving the small corrections to no-boundary MS. An alternative method to obtain the spin magnetic moment correction to the power of synchrotron radiation entails in generalization of the result known for the planar motion. Special attention is given to disagreement between classical and quantum pictures of spin radiation.