Construction of asymptotic fields for a charged particle

DOI10.1142/S0217751X12501333MaRDI QIDQ4912253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. W. Greenberg, Steve Cowen

Publication date 3 April 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5773

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic fieldscharged particle fieldssoft photons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Motion of charged particles (78A35) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: Asymptotic fields do not exist in theories with massless particles and fields, because the vacuum matrix elements of products of the interacting fields in such theories do not have delta function or principal value singularities in momentum space. We remedy this problem by constructing a field for the charged particle that does have the required singularities in momentum space. We illustrate this construction in quantum electrodynamics (QED).

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