Published September 15, 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Exact parapositroniumlike solution to two-body Dirac equations

  • 1. Pacific Sierra Research Corporation, 12340 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90025

Description

Recently we used a supersymmetric version of Dirac's constraint mechanics to derive coupled Dirac equations for a quark and antiquark in mutual chromodynamiclike interaction. Here we investigate the properties of our equations for two spinning particles in mutual electromagneticlike interaction. In the chiral Dirac matrix representation we explicitly obtain a family of exact 16-component solutions with closed-form energy spectrum that agrees with that of parapositronium through order α4. We also find that various rearrangements of our Dirac equations simultaneously yield (for weak potentials) the relativistic wave equations of Todorov and Pilkuhn as well as (for weak potentials and slow motion) the semirelativistic interaction structure of Breit

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
6
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1932-1935
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA