Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2009-02-13
Phys.Rev.C79:055203,2009
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
30 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.79.055203
Point-form relativistic quantum mechanics is used to derive an expression for the electromagnetic form factor of a pseudoscalar meson for space-like momentum transfers. The elastic scattering of an electron by a confined quark-antiquark pair is treated as a relativistic two-channel problem for the $q\bar{q}e$ and $q\bar{q}e\gamma$ states. With the approximation that the total velocity of the $q\bar{q}e$ system is conserved at (electromagnetic) interaction vertices this simplifies to an eigenvalue problem for a Bakamjian-Thomas type mass operator. After elimination of the $q\bar{q}e\gamma$ channel the electromagnetic meson current and form factor can be directly read off from the one-photon-exchange optical potential. By choosing the invariant mass of the electron-meson system large enough, cluster separability violations become negligible. An equivalence with the usual front-form expression, resulting from a spectator current in the $q^+=0$ reference frame, is established. The generalization of this multichannel approach to electroweak form factors for an arbitrary bound few-body system is quite obvious. By an appropriate extension of the Hilbert space this approach is also able to accommodate exchange-current effects.
Biernat Elmar. P.
Fuchsberger Kajetan
Klink William H.
Schweiger Wolfgang
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