82 research outputs found
Lamb Shift in Muonic Hydrogen
The Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen continues to be a subject of experimental
and theoretical investigation. Here my older work on the subject is updated to
provide a complementary calculation of the energies of the 2p-2s transitions in
muonic hydrogen.Comment: 15 pages, no figures. 2 small misprints corrected. Published in Phys.
Rev.
A geometrical angle on Feynman integrals
A direct link between a one-loop N-point Feynman diagram and a geometrical
representation based on the N-dimensional simplex is established by relating
the Feynman parametric representations to the integrals over contents of
(N-1)-dimensional simplices in non-Euclidean geometry of constant curvature. In
particular, the four-point function in four dimensions is proportional to the
volume of a three-dimensional spherical (or hyperbolic) tetrahedron which can
be calculated by splitting into birectangular ones. It is also shown that the
known formula of reduction of the N-point function in (N-1) dimensions
corresponds to splitting the related N-dimensional simplex into N rectangular
ones.Comment: 47 pages, including 42 pages of the text (in plain Latex) and 5 pages
with the figures (in a separate Latex file, requires axodraw.sty) a note and
three references added, minor problem with notation fixe
Renormalizable 1/N_f Expansion for Field Theories in Extra Dimensions
We demonstrate how one can construct renormalizable perturbative expansion in
formally nonrenormalizable higher dimensional field theories. It is based on
-expansion and results in a logarithmically divergent perturbation
theory in arbitrary high space-time dimension. First, we consider a simple
example of -component scalar filed theory and then extend this approach to
Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories with fermions. In the latter case,
due to self-interaction of non-Abelian fields the proposed recipe requires some
modification which, however, does not change the main results. The resulting
effective coupling is dimensionless and is running in accordance with the usual
RG equations. The corresponding beta function is calculated in the leading
order and is nonpolynomial in effective coupling. It exhibits either UV
asymptotically free or IR free behaviour depending on the dimension of
space-time. The original dimensionful coupling plays a role of a mass and is
also logarithmically renormalized. We analyze also the analytical properties of
a resulting theory and demonstrate that in general it acquires several ghost
states with negative and/or complex masses. In the former case, the ghost state
can be removed by a proper choice of the coupling. As for the states with
complex conjugated masses, their contribution to physical amplitudes cancels so
that the theory appears to be unitary.Comment: 32 pages, 20 figure
Causal perturbation theory in terms of retarded products, and a proof of the Action Ward Identity
In the framework of perturbative algebraic quantum field theory a local
construction of interacting fields in terms of retarded products is performed,
based on earlier work of Steinmann. In our formalism the entries of the
retarded products are local functionals of the off shell classical fields, and
we prove that the interacting fields depend only on the action and not on terms
in the Lagrangian which are total derivatives, thus providing a proof of
Stora's 'Action Ward Identity'. The theory depends on free parameters which
flow under the renormalization group. This flow can be derived in our local
framework independently of the infrared behavior, as was first established by
Hollands and Wald. We explicitly compute non-trivial examples for the
renormalization of the interaction and the field.Comment: 76 pages, to appear in Rev. Math. Phy
Explicitly symmetrical treatment of three-body phase space
We derive expressions for three-body phase space that are explicitly
symmetrical in the masses of the three particles. We study geometrical
properties of the variables involved in elliptic integrals and demonstrate that
it is convenient to use the Jacobian zeta function to express the results in
four and six dimensions.Comment: 20 pages, latex, 2 postscript figure
The Single Photon Annihilation Contributions to the Positronium Hyperfine Splitting to Order
The single photon annihilation contributions for the positronium ground state
hyperfine splitting are calculated analytically to order using
NRQED. Based on intuitive physical arguments the same result can also be
determined by a trivial calculation using results from existing literature. Our
result completes the hyperfine splitting calculation to order . We
compare the theoretical prediction with the most recent experimental
measurement.Comment: 8 pages, latex, two eps figures include
Protecting the conformal symmetry via bulk renormalization on Anti deSitter space
The problem of perturbative breakdown of conformal symmetry can be avoided,
if a conformally covariant quantum field phi on d-dimensional Minkowski
spacetime is viewed as the boundary limit of a quantum field Phi on
d+1-dimensional anti-deSitter spacetime (AdS). We study the boundary limit in
renormalized perturbation theory with polynomial interactions in AdS, and point
out the differences as compared to renormalization directly on the boundary. In
particular, provided the limit exists, there is no conformal anomaly. We
compute explicitly the "fish diagram" on AdS_4 by differential renormalization,
and calculate the anomalous dimension of the composite boundary field phi^2
with bulk interaction Phi^4.Comment: 40 page
Feynman Diagrams and Differential Equations
We review in a pedagogical way the method of differential equations for the
evaluation of D-dimensionally regulated Feynman integrals. After dealing with
the general features of the technique, we discuss its application in the
context of one- and two-loop corrections to the photon propagator in QED, by
computing the Vacuum Polarization tensor exactly in D. Finally, we treat two
cases of less trivial differential equations, respectively associated to a
two-loop three-point, and a four-loop two-point integral. These two examples
are the playgrounds for showing more technical aspects about: Laurent expansion
of the differential equations in D (around D=4); the choice of the boundary
conditions; and the link among differential and difference equations for
Feynman integrals.Comment: invited review article from Int. J. Mod. Phys.
Hadronic Contributions to the Muon Anomaly in the Constituent Chiral Quark Model
The hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon which
are relevant for the confrontation between theory and experiment at the present
level of accuracy, are evaluated within the same framework: the constituent
chiral quark model. This includes the contributions from the dominant hadronic
vacuum polarization as well as from the next--to--leading order hadronic vacuum
polarization, the contributions from the hadronic light-by-light scattering,
and the contributions from the electroweak hadronic vertex.
They are all evaluated as a function of only one free parameter: the
constituent quark mass. We also comment on the comparison between our results
and other phenomenological evaluations.Comment: Several misprints corrected and a clarifying sentence added. Three
figures superposed and two references added. Version to appear in JHE
Lamb Shift in Light Muonic Atoms - Revisited
In connection with recent and proposed experiments, and new theoretical
results, my previous calculations of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen will be
reviewed and compared with other work. In addition, numerical results for
muonic deuterium and helium will be presented. Some previously neglected (but
very small) effects are included.Comment: 41 pages. This paper has appeared in Annals of Physics, vol. 327, pp
733-763 (2012). The present version has corrected several misprints, and
updated some references to take into account new result
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