From Faddeev-Kulish to LSZ. Towards a non-perturbative description of colliding electrons

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2017.10.018MaRDI QIDQ1684093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. Dybalski

Publication date 4 December 2017

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09057

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bergman spaces and Fock spaces (30H20) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (n)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U10) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: In a low energy approximation of the massless Yukawa theory (Nelson model) we derive a Faddeev-Kulish type formula for the scattering matrix of $N$ electrons and reformulate it in LSZ terms. To this end, we perform a decomposition of the infrared finite Dollard modifier into clouds of real and virtual photons, whose infrared divergencies mutually cancel. We point out that in the original work of Faddeev and Kulish the clouds of real photons are omitted, and consequently their scattering matrix is ill-defined on the Fock space of free electrons. To support our observations, we compare our final LSZ expression for $N=1$ with a rigorous non-perturbative construction due to Pizzo. While our discussion contains some heuristic steps, they can be formulated as clear-cut mathematical conjectures.

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