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Many-body Fock sectors in Wick-Cutkosky model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

In the model where two massive scalar particles interact by the ladder exchanges of massless scalar particles (Wick-Cutkosky model), we study in light-front dynamics the contributions of different Fock sectors (with increasing number of exchanged particles) to full normalization integral and electromagnetic form factor. It turns out that two-body sector always dominates. At small coupling constant α1\alpha\ll 1, its contribution is close to 100%. It decreases with increase of α\alpha. For maximal value α=2π\alpha=2\pi, corresponding to the zero bound state mass, two-body sector contributes to the normalization integral 64%, whereas the three-body contribution is 26% and the sum of all higher contributions from four- to infinite-body sectors is 10%. Contributions to the form factor from different Fock sectors fall off faster for asymptotically large Q2Q^2, when the number of particles in the Fock sectors becomes larger. So, asymptotic behavior of the form factor is determined by the two-body Fock sector.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405035,
  title  = {Many-body Fock sectors in Wick-Cutkosky model},
  author = {Dae Sung Hwang and V. A. Karmanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405035},
  year   = {2009}
}

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36 pages, 16 figures