Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2011-05-13
Phys.Rev.C84:045201,2011
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
17 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.84.045201
We address the issue of consistent interactions for off-shell fermion fields of arbitrary spin. These interactions play a crucial role in the quantum hadrodynamical description of high-spin baryon resonances in hadronic processes. The Rarita-Schwinger description of high-spin fermion fields involves unphysical degrees of freedom, associated with their lower-spin content. These enter the interaction if not eliminated outright. The invariance condition of the interaction under the unconstrained Rarita-Schwinger gauge removes the lower-spin content of the fermion propagator and leads to a consistent description of the interaction. We develop the most general, consistent interaction structure for high-spin fermions. We find that the power of the momentum dependence of a consistent interaction rises with the spin of the fermion field. This leads to unphysical structures in the energy dependence of the computed cross sections when the short-distance physics is cut off with standard hadronic form factors. A novel, spin-dependent hadronic form factor is proposed that suppresses the unphysical artifacts.
Cruz Lesley de
Ryckebusch Jan
Vancraeyveld Pieter
Vrancx Tom
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