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Covariance of Light-Front Models: Pair Current

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We compute the "+" component of the electromagnetic current of a composite spin-one two-fermion system for vanishing momentum transfer component q+=q0+q3q^+=q^0+q^3. In particular, we extract the nonvanishing pair production amplitude on the light-front. It is a consequence of the longitudinal zero momentum mode, contributing to the light-front current in the Breit-frame. The covariance of the current is violated, if such pair terms are not included in its matrix elements. We illustrate our discussion with some numerical examples.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908384,
  title  = {Covariance of Light-Front Models: Pair Current},
  author = {J. P. B. C de Melo and T. Frederico and H. W. L. Naus and P. U. Sauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908384},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages,include 5 figures (lfcxx.eps, lfczx.eps,lfczz.eps, lfcagg.eps and lfcaqq.eps), use latex,epsf,elsart, e-mail: pacheco@lpnp66.in2p3.fr, tobias@fis.ita.cta.br, naus1@fel.tno.nl, sauer@itp.uni-hannover.de, Accepted in Nucl.Phys. A (1999)

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