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On the Forward Scattering Amplitude of the Virtual Longitudinal Photon at Zero Energy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-12-30 v2

Abstract

The theorem is proved, determining the forward scatterring amplitude of virtual longitudinal photon at zero energy on any hadronic target in the limit of small photon virtualities Q2Q^2. The theorem is strict, based only on Lorenz and gauge invariance. No assumptions about the strong interaction, besides the gap in the mass spectrum, are used. Two terms in the expansion over Q2Q^2 are calculated. The estimation is given up to what Q2Q^2 the elastic term can represent the whole amplitude of longitudinal virtual photon-proton scattering.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9608267,
  title  = {On the Forward Scattering Amplitude of the Virtual Longitudinal Photon at Zero Energy},
  author = {B. L. Ioffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9608267},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

A typo (sign in eq.(10)) was corrected; 5 pages, LATEX, no figures