Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2009-12-17
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
3 pages, 1 figure, submitted to EPJ Web of Conferences
Scientific paper
The electromagnetic form factor of a confined quark-antiquark pair is calculated within the framework of point-form relativistic quantum mechanics. The dynamics of theexchanged photon is explicitly taken into account by treating theelectromagnetic scattering of an electron by a meson as a relativistic two-channel problem for a Bakamjian-Thomas type mass operator. This approach guarantees Poincare invariance. Using a Feshbach reduction the coupled-channel problem can be converted into a one-channel problem for the elastic electron-meson channel. By comparing the one-photon-exchange optical potential at the constituent and hadronic levels, we are able to unambiguously identify the electromagnetic meson form factor. Violations of cluster-separability properties, which are inherent in the Bakamjian-Thomas approach, become negligible for sufficiently large invariant mass of the electron-meson system. In the limit of an infinitely large invariant mass, an equivalence with form-factor calculations done in front-form relativistic quantum mechanics is established analytically.
Biernat Elmar. P.
Fuchsberger Kajetan
Klink William H.
Schweiger Wolfgang
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