Eletroweak Form Factors in the Light-Front for Spin-1 Particles

• Published in: Few-body systems Vol. 52; no. 3-4; pp. 403 - 407
• Main Authors: de Melo, J. P. B. C., Frederico, T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01-05-2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Atomic; Electromagnetics; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Molecular; Nuclear Physics; Optical and Plasma Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Particle physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Electromagnetic Current; Form Factor; Pair Term; Zero Mode; Electromagnetic Form Factor
• ISSN: 0177-7963; 1432-5411
• DOI: 10.1007/s00601-011-0295-9

The contribution of the light-front valence wave function to the electromagnetic current of spin-1 composite particles is not enough to warranty the proper transformation of the current under rotations. The naive derivation of the plus component of the current in the Drell–Yan–West frame within an analytical and covariant model of the vertex leads to the violation of the rotational symmetry. Computing the form-factors in a quasi Drell–Yan–West frame
q
+
→ 0, we were able to separate out in an analytical form the contributions from Z-diagrams or zero modes using the instant-form cartesian polarization basis.