Unambiguous Extraction of the Electromagnetic Form Factors for Spin-1 Particles on the Light-Front
Abstract
The electromagnetic form factors of a composite vector particle within the light-front formulation of the Mandelstam formula is investigated. In order to extract the form factors from the matrix elements of the plus component of the current in the Drell-Yan frame, where the momentum transfer is chosen such that , one has in principle the freedom to choose between different linear combinations of matrix elements of the current operator. The different prescriptions to calculate the electromagnetic form factors, and , i.e., charge form factor, magnetic and quadrupole respectively. If the covariance is respected, all prescriptions give the same results, misfortune, is not the situation, the light-front approach produce different results, which depend of the prescriptions as utilized to extract the electromagnetic form factors in the case of the spin-1 particles. The main differences of the prescriptions appear because of the light-front matrix elements of the electromagnetic current are contaminated by the zero-modes contributions to the same with the plus component of the matrix elements of the electromagnetic current. However, the Inna Grach prescription is immune to the zero-modes contributions to the electromagnetic current, then the electromagnetic form factors extracted with that prescriptions do not have zero-modes contribution and give the same result compared with the instant form quantum field theory. Another's prescriptions with the light-front approach are contaminated by the zero-modes contributions to the matrix elements of the electromagnetic current with the plus component of the current.
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@article{arxiv.1810.11478,
title = {Unambiguous Extraction of the Electromagnetic Form Factors for Spin-1 Particles on the Light-Front},
author = {J. P. B. C. de Melo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11478},
year = {2018}
}
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Use elsevier style.1 latex file and 10 figures eps. Revised version. To appear Phys. Lett. B. (2018)