Published April 1992 | Version v1
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Comment on 'composite nucleons and the Dirac sea'

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It is pointed out that Lorentz invariance forbids suppressing the anti-particle contributions in Dirac phenomenology without also considering the particle contributions. Furthermore, the contribution of virtual NN pairs at the tree level can be shifted via a unitary transformation to a contact term which is not subject to any suppression. Thus checks of the validity of Dirac phenomenology must study the complete propagator. (author)

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Available from TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada).

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6 p.
Report number
TRI-PP--92-26

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Canada
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Canada
INIS RN
36090736
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
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Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGY; FERMIONS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; NUCLEONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SOLITONS
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUASI PARTICLES

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