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- Tom Vrancx (UGent) , Lesley De Cruz (UGent) , Jan Ryckebusch (UGent) and Pieter Vancraeyveld (UGent)
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- We address the issue of consistent interactions for off-shell fermion fields of arbitrary spin. These interactions play a crucial role in the quantum hadrodynamical description of high-spin baryon resonances in hadronic processes. The Rarita-Schwinger (R-S) description of high-spin fermion fields involves unphysical degrees of freedom associated with their lower-spin content. These enter the interaction if not eliminated outright. The invariance condition of the interaction under the unconstrained R-S gauge removes the lower-spin content of the fermion propagator and leads to a consistent description of the interaction. We develop the most general consistent interaction structure for high-spin fermions. We find that the power of the momentum dependence of a consistent interaction rises with the spin of the fermion field. This leads to unphysical structures in the energy dependence of the computed tree-level cross sections when the short-distance physics is cut off with standard hadronic form factors. A spin-dependent hadronic form factor is proposed that suppresses the unphysical artifacts.
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- hadron physics, Rarita-Schwinger fields, consistent interactions, hadron form factors
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1942830
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- Vrancx, Tom, et al. “Consistent Interactions for High-Spin Fermion Fields.” PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 84, no. 4, 2011, doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.84.045201.
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- Vrancx, T., De Cruz, L., Ryckebusch, J., & Vancraeyveld, P. (2011). Consistent interactions for high-spin fermion fields. PHYSICAL REVIEW C, 84(4). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.84.045201
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- Vrancx, Tom, Lesley De Cruz, Jan Ryckebusch, and Pieter Vancraeyveld. 2011. “Consistent Interactions for High-Spin Fermion Fields.” PHYSICAL REVIEW C 84 (4). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.84.045201.
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- Vrancx, Tom, Lesley De Cruz, Jan Ryckebusch, and Pieter Vancraeyveld. 2011. “Consistent Interactions for High-Spin Fermion Fields.” PHYSICAL REVIEW C 84 (4). doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.84.045201.
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- 1.Vrancx T, De Cruz L, Ryckebusch J, Vancraeyveld P. Consistent interactions for high-spin fermion fields. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 2011;84(4).
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- [1]T. Vrancx, L. De Cruz, J. Ryckebusch, and P. Vancraeyveld, “Consistent interactions for high-spin fermion fields,” PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 84, no. 4, 2011.
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