Current conservation in light front dynamics.
AUTOR(ES)
Marinho. Josenilson Ãdnei Oliveira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
We adopt the quasi-potential method as a systematic tool to study relativistic composite systems projected at light-front global time hyperplanes. We address specifically the light-front projection of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for two-bosons, two-fermions and three-bosons systems. The quasi-potential formalism: i) provides a suitable framework for performing light front time projections, dealing with subtle specificities such as the instantaneous terms in fermion systems, and ii) allows one to subtract out the n-body light-front reducible diagrams. The light-front Ward-Takahashi identities for the electromagnetic current operator acting on the valence component of two-fermion and two-boson wave functions are discussed. We study current conservation considering as well the truncation of the quasi-potential expansion in powers of the 4-dimensional two-body irreducible interaction. A conserved electromagnetic current operator truncated in the quasi-potential expansion at a given order and consistent with the effective interaction is derived. A reverse light-front time operator that formally reconstructs the 4-dimensional Bethe-Salpeter amplitude from the valence wave function is derived. This operator can be calculated perturbatively in the quasi-potential expansion. We also show some practical applications of the formalism, exhibiting explicit examples and suggesting feasible and useful future applications.
ASSUNTO(S)
campos eletromagnÃticos partÃculas elementares equaÃÃes frente de luz conservaÃÃo de energia fÃsica nuclear
