Ordermcontributions to the decay rate of orthopositronium
- 28 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 72 (13) , 2006-2008
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.2006
Abstract
We discuss how contributions to the order O(m) orthopositronium decay rate can be separated into two categories, one due to relativistic momenta and calculable in terms of quantum electrodynamics scattering amplitudes, the other due to low momenta and calculable in the simpler framework of a low-energy effective theory. We report new results for all low-momentum contributions, and give a formula relating the remaining contributions to conventional (on-shell) quantum electrodynamics scattering amplitudes.
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