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Positronium on the light front

Nuclear Theory 2020-09-07 v1

Abstract

Basis Light-front Quantization (BLFQ) is a newly developed nonperturbative approach, aiming at solving relativistic bound systems based on the Hamiltonian formalism of light-front dynamics. In this work, we introduce its application to the positronium system at strong coupling, α=0.3\alpha = 0.3, with a dynamical photon mediating the interaction between the positron and the electron. Nonperturbative mass renormalization is needed to cancel the fermion self-energy divergence. Here, we present the resulting mass spectrum, light-front wave functions (LFWFs), and the photon distribution inside positronium.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2003.11781,
  title  = {Positronium on the light front},
  author = {Kaiyu Fu and Hengfei Zhao and Xingbo Zhao and James P. Vary},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11781},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

5 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the XVIII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure (HADRON2019), Guilin, China, 16-21 August 2019

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