Current conservation in electrodisintegration of a bound system in the Bethe-Salpeter approach

Abstract

Using our solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation with OBE kernel in Minkowski space both for the bound and scattering states, we calculate the transition form factors for electrodisintegration of the bound system which determine the electromagnetic current J of this process. Special emphasis is put on verifying the gauge invariance which should manifest itself in the current conservation. We find that for any value of the momentum transfer q the contributions of the plane wave and the final state interaction to the quantity J.q cancel each other thus providing J.q=0. However, this cancellation is obtained only if the initial Bethe-Salpeter amplitude (bound state), the final one (scattering state) and the current operator are strictly consistent with each other. A reliable result for the transition form factor can be found only in this case.

arXiv comment7 pages, 5 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the Workshop: Light-Cone 2014, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, May 26-30, 2014. To be published in Few-Body Systems

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