A NEW BASIS FOR QED BOUND STATE COMPUTATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X02011412MaRDI QIDQ4786734zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 2002

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0111380

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Dispersion theory, dispersion relations arising in quantum theory (81U30)

Abstract: A simple method to compute QED bound state properties is presented, in which binding energy effects are treated non-perturbatively. It is shown that to take the effects of all ladder Coulomb photon exchanges into account, one can simply perform the derivative of standard QED amplitudes with respect to the external momentum. For example, the derivative of the light-by-light scattering amplitude gives an amplitude for orthopositronium decay to three photons where any number of Coulomb photon exchanges between the e-e+ is included. Various applications are presented. From them, it is shown that binding energy must be treated non-perturbatively in order to preserve the analyticity of positronium decay amplitudes. Interesting perspectives for quarkonium physics are briefly sketched.

Cites work

• Bremsstrahlung of Very Low-Energy Quanta in Elementary Particle Collisions
• POSITRONIUM DECAY: GAUGE INVARIANCE AND ANALYTICITY
• Three-Photon Annihilation of an Electron-Positron Pair

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