Stability, creation and annihilation of charges in gauge theories

Anton Ilderton; Martin Lavelle; David McMullan

doi:10.1016/j.aop.2010.01.001

Stability, creation and annihilation of charges in gauge theories

Anton Ilderton^*
, Martin Lavelle
, David McMullan

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Trinity College Dublin

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We show how to construct physical, minimal energy states for systems of static and moving charges. These states are manifestly gauge invariant. For charge–anticharge systems we also construct states in which the gauge fields are restricted to a finite volume around the location of the matter fields. Although this is an excited state, it is not singular, unlike all previous finite volume descriptions. We use our states to model the processes of pair creation and annihilation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	835-851
Number of pages	0
Journal	Annals of Physics
Volume	325
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2010.01.001
Publication status	Published - Apr 2010

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Gauge theory
Physical variables

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