Analysis of a Scattering Process with Spin in the Infinite-Momentum Frame
- 25 July 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 183 (5) , 1446-1451
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.183.1446
Abstract
A kinematical analysis is made of a two-particle scattering process with arbitrary spin in an infinite-momentum frame. It is shown how the description of the spin, in particular, can be simplified by going to this frame. The scattering amplitude is expressed as a function over an algebra in the infinite-momentum frame; this immediately leads to an impact-parameter representation of the amplitude for arbitrary spin. This representation is different from the fixed-energy impact-parameter representation; in particular, the unitarity relation, in the two-body approximation, is seen to have a simple form.
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