Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-03-14
"25th Coral Gables Conference on High Energy Physics and Cosmology" (Plenum Press,1997).
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
9 pages, Latex
Scientific paper
We study the QED bound-state problem in a light-front hamiltonian approach. It is important to establish the equivalence (or not) of equal-time and light-front approaches in the well-understood arena of Quantum Electrodynamics. Along these lines, the singlet-triplet ground state spin splitting in positronium is calculated. The well-known result, $(7/6) \alpha^2 Ryd$, is obtained analytically, which establishes the equivalence between the equal-time and light-front approaches (at least to this order). The true equivalence of the two approaches can only be established after higher-order calculations. It was previously shown that this light-front result could be obtained analytically, but a simpler method is presented in this paper.
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