Kinematic mass of a composite in the many-particle Dirac model
Abstract
We are interested in the energy-momentum relation for a moving composite in relativistic quantum mechanics in many-particle Dirac models. For a manifestly covariant model one can apply the Lorentz transform to go from the rest frame to a moving frame to establish an energy-momentum relation of the form where is the kinematic mass. However, the many-particle Dirac model is not manifestly covariant, and some other approach is required. We have found a simple approach that allows for a separation of relative and center of mass contributions to the energy. We are able to define the associated kinematic energy and determine the energy-momentum relation. Our result can be expressed as a modified deBroglie relation of the form where the kinematic mass will depend on the total momentum for a general noncovariant potential. The prefactor that occurs we associate with a time dilation effect, the existence of which has been discussed previously in the literature.
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@article{arxiv.1201.1488,
title = {Kinematic mass of a composite in the many-particle Dirac model},
author = {Peter L Hagelstein and Irfan U Chaudhary},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1488},
year = {2012}
}
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14 pages