Fully quantum treatment of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QED and QCD

Jul, 1996
8 pages
Published in:
  • JETP Lett. 63 (1996) 952-957
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Abstract:
For the first time a rigorous quantum treatment of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QED and QCD is given. The rate of photon (gluon) radiation by an electron (quark) in medium is expressed through the Green's function of a two-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with an imaginary potential. In QED this potential is proportional to the dipole cross section for scattering of e +e e~{+}e~{-} pair off an atom, in QCD it is proportional to the cross section of interaction with color centre of the color singlet quark-antiquark-gluon system.
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  • E-mail: bgz@landau.ac.ru, kph169@aix.sp.kfa-juelich.de Journal-ref: JETP Letters, v.63, n.12 (1996) pp.906-911
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • electron: multiple scattering
  • quark: multiple scattering
  • gluon: bremsstrahlung
  • Schroedinger equation
  • dimension: 2
  • effective potential
  • propagator: radiative correction
  • cross section: dipole