Relativistic Bound States
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
In this contribution, I will give a brief survey of present techniques to treat the bound state problem in relativistic quantum field theories. In particular, I will discuss the Bethe-Salpeter equation, various quasi-potential equations, the Feynman-Schwinger representation, and similarity transformation methods for Hamiltonian approaches in light-front quantization. Finally, I will comment on a related similarity transformation in the usual equal-time quantized theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0308280,
title = {Relativistic Bound States},
author = {Axel Weber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0308280},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, LaTeX, 3 pspicture diagrams, 3 postscript figures, uses aipxfm.sty. Talk delivered at the X Mexican School of Particles and Fields, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, 2002