Physics Letters B 769 (2017) 418–423
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Bound state equation for the Nakanishi weight function
J. Carbonell
a
, T. Frederico
b
, V.A. Karmanov
c,∗
a
Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3-CNRS, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France
b
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, DCTA, 12228-900, S. José dos Campos, Brazil
c
Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospekt 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
19 December 2016
Received
in revised form 4 April 2017
Accepted
10 April 2017
Available
online 13 April 2017
Editor:
J.-P. Blaizot
Keywords:
Bethe–Salpeter
equation
Nakanishi
representation
Light-Front
The bound state Bethe–Salpeter amplitude was expressed by Nakanishi using a two-dimensional integral
representation, in terms of a smooth weight function g, which carries the detailed dynamical information.
A similar, but one-dimensional, integral representation can be obtained for the Light-Front wave function
in terms of the same weight function g. By using the generalized Stieltjes transform, we first obtain g
in
terms of the Light-Front wave function in the complex plane of its arguments. Next, anew integral
equation for the Nakanishi weight function g is derived for a bound state case. It has the standard form
g = Ng, where N is a two-dimensional integral operator. We give the prescription for obtaining the
kernel N starting with the kernel K of the Bethe–Salpeter equation. The derivation is valid for any kernel
given by an irreducible Feynman amplitude.
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1. Introduction
The Bethe–Salpeter (BS) equation [1] for a few-body system
takes into account the relativity and, implicitly, all the possible
intermediate states. As demonstrated in [2] for the case of the lad-
der
kernel – which displays the strongest (pole) singularities – it
is possible to find the bound states and the scattering solutions in
Minkowski space by a direct numerical calculations, in spite of the
many singularities appearing in the integral and inhomogeneous
terms.
There
exist however another efficient approach to solve this
equation, proposed in [3] and developed in a series papers [4–9],
which relies on the Nakanishi representation [10] of the BS ampli-
tude
(k, p) in terms of a non-singular weight function g(γ , z) as
follows:
(k, p) =
1
−1
dz
∞
0
dγ
g(γ
, z
)
γ
+κ
2
−k
2
− p·kz
−i
3
, (1)
where κ
2
=m
2
−
M
2
4
, m is the constituent mass and M is the total
mass of the bound state (p
2
= M
2
). Once g is known, one can
compute the BS amplitude by means of (1) and calculate other
observables, like the electromagnetic form factors (see [11]).
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: karmanov@sci.lebedev.ru (V.A. Karmanov).
The weight function g determines also, via another integral rep-
resentation,
the light-front (LF) wave function [4]:
ψ
LF
(γ , z) =
1 − z
2
4
∞
0
g(γ
, z)dγ
γ
+γ + z
2
m
2
+
1 − z
2
κ
2
2
. (2)
In this one-dimensional representation, variable z plays the role of
a parameter, varying in the limits −1 ≤ z ≤ 1. The relations be-
tween
variables (γ , z) and the standard LF variables (k
⊥
, x) are
given by γ = k
2
⊥
and z = 2x − 1. By Eq. (2) one can obtain the
LF wave function and calculate its contribution to the form factors
as well as the momentum distributions.
In
a series of recent papers [4–7,12,13], two independent meth-
ods
for finding g have been developed. In the first one [4–7] the
Nakanishi weight function g is determined by solving the double
integral equation, previously established in [4]:
∞
0
g(γ
, z)dγ
γ +γ
+ z
2
m
2
+(1 − z
2
)κ
2
2
=
∞
0
dγ
1
−1
dz
V (γ , z;γ
, z
)g(γ
, z
), (3)
where the kernel V is expressed via the BS kernel. The solution g
of
equation (3) was found in the case of an OBE ladder BS kernel
in [4] and for the ladder plus cross-ladder one in [5,15].
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