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Scalar and spinning particles in a plane wave field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study the quantization problem of relativistic scalar and spinning particles interacting with a radiation electromagnetic field by using the path integral and the external source method. The spin degrees of freedom are described in terms of Grassmann variables and the Feynman kernel is obtained through functional integration on both Bose and Fermi variables. We provide rigourous proof that the Feynman amplitudes are only determined by the classical contribution and we explicitly evaluate the propagators.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0304055,
  title  = {Scalar and spinning particles in a plane wave field},
  author = {A. Barducci and R. Giachetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0304055},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages