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Current conservation and interaction currents with relativistic separable interactions

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
OSTI ID:954202
A method of minimal substitution is used to obtain the electromagnetic two-body interaction current operator associated with a relativistic separable interaction. The result is shown to satisfy a general restriction obtained from current conservation using the Ward-Takahashi identity within the Bethe-Salpeter formalism. It is shown that this two-body relativistic current operator can be reduced to an effective one-body form. Applications of this method to nuclear few-body systems, relativistic quark systems and hadronic resonance processes are discussed. The numerical size of the interaction current for the pion charge form factor is estimated.
Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
954202
Report Number(s):
CEBAF-TH-90-11
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Vol. 43; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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