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The role of interaction vertices in bound state calculations

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In recent studies of the one and two-body Greens' function for scalar interactions it was shown that crossed ladder and ``crossed rainbow'' (for the one-body case) exchanges play a crucial role in nonperturbative dynamics. In this letter we use exact analytical and numerical results to show that the contribution of vertex dressings to the two-body bound state mass for scalar QED are cancelled by the self-energy and wavefunction normalization. This proves, for the first time, that the mass of a two-body bound state given by the full theory can in a very good approximation be obtained by summing only ladder and crossed ladder diagrams using a bare vertex and a constant dressed mass. We also discuss the implications of the remarkable cancellation between rainbow and crossed rainbow diagrams that is a feature of one-body calculations.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0202022,
  title  = {The role of interaction vertices in bound state calculations},
  author = {Cetin Savkli and Franz Gross and John Tjon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0202022},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures