Further development of the new bound-state formalism
Description
The new bound-state formalism developed previously is here extended in two important respects. First is the inclusion of self-energy effects and the demonstration of the implementability of the usual renormalization procedure by means of a calculation of the lowest-order self-energy effects comprising the Lamb shift in a hydrogenlike atom. Second is the derivation of the two-body equation for the particle-antiparticle case where annihilation effects enter. This is exemplified by the derivation of the positronium equation and a calculation of a (known) annihilation contribution to its singlet-triplet splitting. The entire development is facilitated by a modified functional formulation which chooses the fully interacting physical system as the unperturbed one
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Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- Self-energy, renormalization, functional formulation
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review D
- Journal Volume
- 14
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3525-3531
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 8304075
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; BOUND STATE; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GREEN FUNCTION; LAMB SHIFT; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; POSITRONIUM; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; RENORMALIZATION; SELF-ENERGY; TWO-BODY PROBLEM
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENERGY; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPECTRAL SHIFT
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