Construction of non-perturbative, unitary particle-antiparticle amplitudes for finite particle number scattering formalisms

DOI10.1007/S10701-005-4563-8zbMATH Open1093.81049OpenAlexW2089107552MaRDI QIDQ816142FDOQ816142

Authors J. Lindesay, H. Pierre Noyes

Publication date 20 February 2006

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0203042

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) (n)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U10)

Abstract: Starting from a unitary, Lorentz invariant two-particle scattering amplitude , we show how to use an identification and replacement process to construct a unique, unitary particle-antiparticle amplitude. This process differs from conventional on-shell Mandelstam s,t,u crossing in that the input and constructed amplitudes can be off-diagonal and off-energy shell. Further, amplitudes are constructed using the invariant parameters which are appropriate to use as driving terms in the multi-particle, multichannel non-perturbative, cluster decomposable, relativistic scattering equations of the Faddeev-type integral equations recently presented by Alfred, Kwizera, Lindesay and Noyes. It is therefore anticipated that when so employed, the resulting multi-channel solutions will also be unitary. The process preserves the usual particle-antiparticle symmetries. To illustrate this process, we construct a J=0 scattering length model chosen for simplicity. We also exhibit a class of physical models which contain a finite quantum mass parameter and are Lorentz invariant. These are constructed to reduce in the appropriate limits, and with the proper choice of value and sign of the interaction parameter, to the asymptotic solution of the non-relativistic Coulomb problem, including the forward scattering singularity, the essential singularity in the phase, and the Bohr bound-state spectrum.

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