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ON OBSERVABILITY OF DIRAC'S STRING

ALEXANDER I. NESTEROV

Departamento de Física, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, Av. Revolución 1500 Guadalajara, CP 44420, Jalisco, México

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FERMÍN ACEVES DE LA CRUZ

Departamento de Física, CUCEI, Universidad de Guadalajara, Av. Revolución 1500 Guadalajara, CP 44420, Jalisco, México

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Abstract

The nonrelativistic scattering of charged particles by non-quantized Dirac's monopole is explored. It is shown that the singular Dirac "string" should be observed in the quantum scattering experiment, if the Dirac quantization condition is discarded.

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PACS: 14.80.Hv, 03.65.-w, 03.50.De, 05.30.Pr, 11.15.-q

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