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Construction of asymptotic fields for a charged particle

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Asymptotic fields do not exist in theories with massless particles and fields, because the vacuum matrix elements of products of the interacting fields in such theories do not have delta function or principal value singularities in momentum space. We remedy this problem by constructing a field for the charged particle that does have the required singularities in momentum space. We illustrate this construction in quantum electrodynamics (QED).

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@article{arxiv.1207.5773,
  title  = {Construction of asymptotic fields for a charged particle},
  author = {O. W. Greenberg and Steve Cowen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5773},
  year   = {2012}
}

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14 pages