Electromagnetic properties for arbitrary spin particles: Natural electromagnetic moments from light-cone arguments

Jan, 2009
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 79 (2009) 113011
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Abstract: (arXiv)
In a set of two papers, we propose to study an old-standing problem, namely the electromagnetic interaction for particles of arbitrary spin. Based on the assumption that light-cone helicity at tree level and Q2=0Q^2=0 should be conserved non-trivially by the electromagnetic interaction, we are able to derive \emph{all} the natural electromagnetic moments for a pointlike particle of \emph{any} spin. In this second paper, we give explicit expressions for the light-cone helicity amplitudes in terms of covariant vertex functions, leading to the natural electromagnetic moments at Q2=0Q^2=0. As an application of our results, we generalize the discussion of quark transverse charge densities to particles with arbitrary spin.
  • 13.88.+e
  • 13.40.Em
  • particle: electromagnetic interaction
  • spin: high
  • helicity
  • light cone
  • scattering amplitude
  • tree approximation
  • moment: electromagnetic
  • vertex function