CASIMIR ENERGY OF MASSLESS FERMIONS IN THE SLAB-BAG

Abstract

The zero-point energy of a massless fermion field in the interior of two parallel plates in a D-dimensional space–time at zero temperature is calculated. In order to regularize the model, a mix between dimensional and zeta-function regularization procedure is used and it is found that the regularized zero-point energy density is finite for any number of space–time dimensions. We present a general expression for the Casimir energy of the fermionic field in such a situation.