TY - JOUR
T1 - First nonperturbative calculation in light-front QED for an arbitrary covariant gauge
AU - Chabysheva, Sophia S
AU - Hiller, John R
PY - 2011/8/1
Y1 - 2011/8/1
N2 - This work is the first check of gauge invariance for nonperturbative calculations in light-front QED. To quantize QED in an arbitrary covariant gauge, we use a light-front analog of the equal-time Stueckelberg quantization. Combined with a Pauli-Villars regularization, where massive, negative-metric photons and fermions are included in the Lagrangian, we are then able to construct the light-front QED Hamiltonian and the associated mass eigenvalue problem in a Fock-space representation. The formalism is applied to the dressed-electron state, with a Fock-space truncation to include at most one photon. From this eigenstate, we compute the anomalous magnetic moment. The result is found to be gauge independent, to an order in α consistent with the truncation.
AB - This work is the first check of gauge invariance for nonperturbative calculations in light-front QED. To quantize QED in an arbitrary covariant gauge, we use a light-front analog of the equal-time Stueckelberg quantization. Combined with a Pauli-Villars regularization, where massive, negative-metric photons and fermions are included in the Lagrangian, we are then able to construct the light-front QED Hamiltonian and the associated mass eigenvalue problem in a Fock-space representation. The formalism is applied to the dressed-electron state, with a Fock-space truncation to include at most one photon. From this eigenstate, we compute the anomalous magnetic moment. The result is found to be gauge independent, to an order in α consistent with the truncation.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.034001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.034001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80052634578
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 84
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 3
M1 - 034001
ER -