Potential NRQED: The Positronium case

May, 1998
21 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 59 (1999) 016005
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Report number:
  • UB-ECM-PF-98-11,
  • KFA-IKP-TH-98-9

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Abstract:
We discuss in detail potential NRQED (pNRQED), a previously proposed effective field theory for ultrasoft photons. The pNRQED lagrangian for the equal mass case is presented and it is shown that it correctly reproduces the positronium spectrum at order mα5m\alpha^5. The pNRQED lagrangian for the unequal mass case is also presented at the same order. Dimensional regularization is used throughout.
  • quantum electrodynamics: nonrelativistic
  • potential
  • effective Lagrangian
  • positronium: energy spectrum
  • photon: propagator
  • regularization: dimensional
  • HQET model
  • bound state
  • quantum chromodynamics: nonrelativistic