Relativistic resonances: Their masses, widths, lifetimes, superposition, and causal evolution

Abstract

Whether one starts form the analytic S-matrix definition or the requirement of gauge parameter independence in renormalization theory, a relativistic resonance is given by a pole at a complex value s of energy squared. The complex number s does not define the mass and width separately and this definition does not lead to interfering Breit-Wigner if two or more resonances are involved. To accomplish both we invoke the decaying particle aspect of a resonance and associate to each pole a space of relativistic Gamow kets which transform irreducibly under causal Poincare transformations. A Gamow state has an exponential time evolution and one can choose of the many possible width parameters, that parameter as the width of the relativistic resonance which equals the inverse lifetime. This uniquely defines the mass and width parameters for a relativistic resonance. Two or more poles in the same partial wave are given by the sum of Breit-Wigners in the scattering amplitude and by a superposition of Gamow vectors with each Gamow vector corresponding to one Breit-Wigner. In addition to the sum of Breit-Wigners the scattering amplitude contains a background amplitude representing direct production of the final state (contact terms).This contact amplitude is associated to a background vector which is a continuous superposition of Lippmann-Schwinger states. Omitting this continuum gives the Weisskopf-Wigner approximation.

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