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Compton Scattering off Relativistic Bound States: Two-Photon Vertices, Ward-Takahashi Identities, Gauge Invariance and Low-Energy Limit | | Matthias Koll
; Ralf Ricken
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16 Mar 2001 | | Subject: | Nuclear Theory; Atomic Physics | nucl-th hep-ph physics.atom-ph | | Abstract: | In a general framework that has been labeled the ``gauging of equations method’’, we study the diagrams that contribute to Compton scattering off a relativistic composite system. These contributions can be derived for $N$--particle bound states described by the covariant Bethe--Salpeter equation with a method equivalent to minimal substitution in the one--particle case and yield the correct contributions (including subtraction terms) in the order ${cal O}(e^2)$. We give the Ward--Takahashi identities for the general two--photon vertex as well as the corresponding constraints for the two--photon irreducible interaction kernel and the Bethe--Salpeter amplitude describing the bound state. From this we can show that gauge invariance holds for the full two--photon vertex. We furthermore study in detail the low--energy limit of the Compton scattering tensor in this approach (including a discussion of the pole terms) and can prove that the full amplitude yields the correct Born--Thomson limit as we shall explicitly show for the spin--0 case. The calculations are completed by the investigation of certain approximations that can be formulated for arbitrary $N$--particle bound states. We neglect for instance contributions from $n$--photon irreducible interaction kernels and show that in this case gauge invariance is only realized if either the interaction kernel in the Bethe--Salpeter equation is independent of the total momentum and additionally is of local type, or if the photon energies vanish; furthermore, we find the correct low--energy limit in this approximation. To clarify our approach, we also give the results in the order ${cal O} (e)$; as examples, we will quote some resulting lowest order expressions for a $qar q$ system explicitly. | | Source: | arXiv, nucl-th/0103044 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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