Electromagnetic moments of quasi-stable particle

Abstract

We deal with the problem of assigning electromagnetic moments to a quasi-stable particle (i.e., a particle with mass located at particle's decay threshold). In this case, an application of a small external electromagnetic field changes the energy in a non-analytic way, which makes it difficult to assign definitive moments. On the example of a spin-1/2 field with mass $M_{\ast }$ interacting with two fields of masses $M$ and $m$, we show how a conventionally defined magnetic dipole moment diverges at $M_{\ast }=M+m$. We then show that the conventional definition makes sense only when the values of the applied magnetic field $B$ satisfy $|eB|/2M_{\ast }\ll |M_{\ast }-M-m|$. We discuss implications of these results to existing studies in electroweak theory, chiral effective-field theory, and lattice QCD.

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