Zitterbewegung, internal momentum and spin of the circular travelling-wave electromagnetic model electron

Abstract

The study of this paper demonstrates that electron has Dirac delta like internal momentum (u,p_{{\theta}}), going round in a circle of radius equal to half the reduced Compton wavelength of electron with tangential velocity c. The circular momentum p_{{\theta}} and energy u emanate from circular Dirac delta type rotating monochromatic electromagnetic (EM) wave that itself travels in another circle having radius equal to the reduced Compton wavelength of electron. The phenomenon of Zitterbewegung and the spin of electron are the natural consequences of the model. The spin is associated with the internal circulating momentum of electron in terms of four component spinor, which leads to the Dirac equation linking the EM electron model with quantum mechanical theory. Our model accurately explains the experimental results of electron channelling experiment, [P. Catillon et al., Found.Phys. 38, 659 (2008)], in which the momentum resonance is observed at 161.784MeV/c corresponding to Zitterbewegung frequency of 80.874MeV/c electron beam.