Conserved electromagnetic currents in a relativistic optical model
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
A simple model of a relativistic optical model is constructed by reducing the three-body Bethe-Salpeter equation to an effective two-body optical model. A corresponding effective current is derived for use with the optical-model wave functions. It is shown that this current satisfies a Ward-Takahashi identity involving the optical potential which results in conserved current matrix elements.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0605031,
title = {Conserved electromagnetic currents in a relativistic optical model},
author = {J. W. Van~Orden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0605031},
year = {2008}
}
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20 pages, 2 figures