Charges from dressed matter: Physics and renormalisation

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DOI10.1006/APHY.2000.6049zbMATH Open0990.81145arXivhep-ph/9909262OpenAlexW3104936727WikidataQ62556097 ScholiaQ62556097MaRDI QIDQ1581173FDOQ1581173


Authors: Emili Bagan, Martin Lavelle, David McMullan Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 29 July 2002

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gauge theories are characterised by long range interactions. Neglecting these interactions at large times, and identifying the Lagrangian matter fields with the asymptotic physical fields, leads to the infra-red problem. In this paper we study the perturbative applications of a construction of physical charges in QED, where the matter fields are combined with the associated electromagnetic clouds. This has been formally shown, in a companion paper, to include these asymptotic interactions. It is explicitly demonstrated that the on-shell Green's functions and S-matrix elements describing these charged fields have, to all orders in the coupling, the pole structure associated with particle propagation and scattering. We show in detail that the renormalisation procedure may be carried out straightforwardly. It is shown that standard infra-red finite predictions of QED are not altered and it is speculated that the good infra-red properties of our construction may open the way to the calculation of previously uncalculable properties. Finally extensions of this approach to QCD are briefly discussed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9909262




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