Speaker
Prof.
Wayne Polyzou
(Universityof Iowa)
Description
We discuss a systematic method for constructing many-body electromagnetic current operators that are needed to ensure covariance and current conservation in phenomenological relativistic Hamiltonian models of
strongly interacting systems. The construction represents a general Hamiltonian in the Weyl representation. Momentum operators in this representation are replaced by gauge covariant derivatives and the part of the resulting operator that is linear in the electromagnetic field is extracted. Non-commuting operators are treated explicitly using Trotter methods. Because the resulting current is an operator, it can be consistently applied to different reactions.
Primary author
Prof.
Wayne Polyzou
(Universityof Iowa)
Co-author
Prof.
Jacek Golak
(Jagiellonian University)
