Magnetic field configuration of a moving electron
V. V. Vikhrev
Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
An electromagnetic field configuration is analyzed, which is produced by a moving charged particle having a magnetic moment. Special attention is paid to the field configuration by an electron. It is shown that the de Broglie interpretation of the characteristic size, h/2men , for an electron, is not the only possible one. Moving electron has a complex structure of magnetic field with its essential parameter Ln=ħ/2men. If a magnetic dipole of the charged particles is perpendicular to its velocity, the magnetic field has a hole at the distance Lv from the electron. The example is given then all magnetic field lines of a moving electron look like the spirals with the period equal to a half the de Broglie wavelength.
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