Gravitational radiation emitted by an electron in the field of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave
Abstract
The gravitational radiation emitted by a charged particle in the field of a plane circularly polarized electromagnetic wave is considered in the linear approximation of general relativity. It is shown that, in distinction from the case of the gravitational radiation emitted by a relativistic particle in a slowly varying field, the intensity of the radiation increases proportional to the sixth power of the ratio E/m, rather than the fourth power. A formula is also obtained for the annihilation of a pair into one graviton in the presence of an electromagnetic wave. The limit of a static field is discussed.
- Publication:
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Zhurnal Eksperimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976ZhETF..68..777G
- Keywords:
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- Circular Polarization;
- Cyclotron Radiation;
- Electromagnetic Fields;
- Electron Oscillations;
- Gravitational Waves;
- Gravitons;
- Annihilation Reactions;
- Particle Theory;
- Relativistic Particles;
- Astrophysics