Non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm scattering of spinless particles - art. no. 045015

The Aharonov-Bohm scattering for spinless, isospin 1/2, particles interacti ng through a non-Abelian Chern-Simons field is studied. Starring from the r elativistic quantum field theory and using a Coulomb gauge formulation, the one loop renormalization program is implemented. Through the introduction of an intermediary cutoff, separating the regions of high and low integrati on momentum, the nonrelativistic limit is derived. The next to leading rela tivistic approximation is also determined. In this approach quantum field t heory vacuum polarization effects are automatically incorporated. [S0556-28 21(99)04002-3].