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The Physical Propagator of a Slowly Moving Charge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider an electron which is electromagnetically dressed in such a way that it is both gauge invariant and that it has the associated electric and magnetic fields expected of a moving charge. We study the propagator of this dressed electron and, for small velocities, show explicitly at one loop that at the natural (on-shell) renormalisation point, p0=mp_0=m, p=mv{\bold p}= m{\bold v}, one can renormalise the propagator multiplicatively. Furthermore the renormalisation constants are infra-red finite. This shows that the dressing we use corresponds to a slowly moving, physical asymptotic field.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512118,
  title  = {The Physical Propagator of a Slowly Moving Charge},
  author = {Emili Bagan and Martin Lavelle and David McMullan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512118},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, plain TeX, 1 Figure (uuencoded needs epsfig.sty)