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Electromagnetic Properties for Arbitrary Spin Particles: Part 2 $-$ Natural Moments and Transverse Charge Densities

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-15 v1

Abstract

In a set of two papers, we propose to study an old-standing problem, namely the electromagnetic interaction for particles of arbitrary spin. Based on the assumption that light-cone helicity at tree level and Q2=0Q^2=0 should be conserved non-trivially by the electromagnetic interaction, we are able to derive \emph{all} the natural electromagnetic moments for a pointlike particle of \emph{any} spin. In this second paper, we give explicit expressions for the light-cone helicity amplitudes in terms of covariant vertex functions, leading to the natural electromagnetic moments at Q2=0Q^2=0. As an application of our results, we generalize the discussion of quark transverse charge densities to particles with arbitrary spin.

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@article{arxiv.0901.4200,
  title  = {Electromagnetic Properties for Arbitrary Spin Particles: Part 2 $-$ Natural Moments and Transverse Charge Densities},
  author = {Cédric Lorcé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4200},
  year   = {2010}
}

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