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Ab Initio Approach to the Non-Perturbative Scalar Yukawa Model

Nuclear Theory 2015-08-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We report on the first non-perturbative calculation of the scalar Yukawa model in the single-nucleon sector up to four-body Fock sector truncation (one "scalar nucleon" and three "scalar pions"). The light-front Hamiltonian approach with a systematic non-perturbative renormalization is applied. We study the nn-body norms and the electromagnetic form factor. We find that the one- and two-body contributions dominate up to coupling α1.7\alpha \approx 1.7. As we approach the coupling α2.2\alpha \approx 2.2, we discover that the four-body contribution rises rapidly and overtakes the two- and three-body contributions. By comparing with lower sector truncations, we show that the form factor converges with respect to the Fock sector expansion.

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@article{arxiv.1504.05233,
  title  = {Ab Initio Approach to the Non-Perturbative Scalar Yukawa Model},
  author = {Yang Li and V. A. Karmanov and P. Maris and J. P. Vary},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05233},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 12 figures, to be published in Phys. Lett. B