Bound states in quantum field theory, scalar fields

Details Bound states in quantum field theory, scalar fields Bound states in quantum field theory, scalar fields

1999-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9907483v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

29 pages, 1 figure, REVTEX, epsf.sty

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The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the method called "the Bosonization of Nonlocal Currents" (BNC), used for calculations of bound states in a quark model, within the simplest relativistic quantum field model of two scalar fields with the Yukawa type interaction. A second aim is to clarify the relation between BNC and two widely used methods, employed in recent particle physics to calculate bound states of interacting particles, based on the nonrelativistic Schrodinger equation (the S-method), and the relativistic Bethe-Salpeter equation (the BS-method), and to determine the conditions on parameters of a quantum field model dictating a definite method to be applied. It is shown that all these methods can be applied only in the weak coupling regime when the effective dimensionless coupling constant should be less than 1. The basic parameter separating the relativistic and nonrelativistic pictures is the ratio of the masses of the exchange ("meson") and constituent ("nucleon") particles. If this ratio and the coupling constant are small then the potential picture takes place, i.e., the bound state is described by the nonrelativistic Schrodinger equation. Otherwise, the Bethe-Salpeter equation or the BNC should be employed. One notes that the BNC method has a slightly wider region of applicability in this case.

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