Inertial mass of a superconducting vortex

We show that a large contribution to the inertial mass of a moving superconducting vortex comes from transversal displacements of the crystal lattice. The corresponding part of the mass per unit length of the vortex line is $M_{l} = ({\rm m}e^2c^{2}/64{\pi}{\alpha}^{2}{\mu}{\lambda}{L}^{4})\ln({\lambda}{L}/{\xi})$,where${\rm m}{e}$isthethebareelectronmass,$c$isthespeedoflight,${\alpha}=e^{2}/{\hbar}c {\approx} 1/137$isthefinestructureconstant,${\mu}$istheshearmodulusofthesolid,${\lambda}_{L}$ is the London penetration length and $\xi$ is the coherence length. In conventional superconductors, this mass can be comparable to or even greater than the vortex core mass computed by Suhl.