AN EFFECTIVE SCALAR PHOTON INTERACTION FROM ORDINARY NONRELATIVISTIC SPINLESS 2-BODY QED

Authors
AU CK
Citation
Ck. Au, AN EFFECTIVE SCALAR PHOTON INTERACTION FROM ORDINARY NONRELATIVISTIC SPINLESS 2-BODY QED, Physics letters. A, 232(3-4), 1997, pp. 162-164
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
232
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
162 - 164
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1997)232:3-4<162:AESPIF>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
An effective scalar photon interaction emerges from two-body non-relat ivistic spinless QED due to finite mass corrections. This has the inte resting consequence that even in a non-relativistic theory, a hydrogen ic atom in the metastable 2S(1/2) state can decay by emitting one sing le photon. However, in a self-conjugate system like positronium, this one photon decay mode via this effective scalar photon interaction is totally suppressed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.