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Radiative corrections to parapositronium decay
Radiative corrections to the two-gamma decay of parapositronium are examined. Special care is taken in the handling of the so-called binding diagram; in particular, the limiting procedure related to the infrared divergence is considered carefully. The general covariant gauges and the Fried-Yennie ga...
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Published in: | Annals of physics 1980-01, Vol.128 (2), p.463-490 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Radiative corrections to the two-gamma decay of parapositronium are examined. Special care is taken in the handling of the so-called binding diagram; in particular, the limiting procedure related to the infrared divergence is considered carefully. The general covariant gauges and the Fried-Yennie gauge are used in the computation to see that gauge invariance is accounted for. The order α correction of Harris and Brown is confirmed. In addition, from a sharp peak of the matrix element at low momentum and the low-momentum correction to the wave function, an
α
2 ln
α
−1 correction is derived. |
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ISSN: | 0003-4916 1096-035X |
DOI: | 10.1016/0003-4916(80)90329-2 |