Time asymmetric quantum theory – II. Relativistic resonances from S-matrix poles
✍ Scribed by A. Bohm; H. Kaldass; S. Wickramasekara
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 366 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0015-8208
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Relativistic resonances and decaying states are described by representations of Poincaré transformations, similar to Wigner's definition of stable particles. To associate decaying state vectors to resonance poles of the S‐matrix, the conventional Hilbert space assumption (or asymptotic completeness) is replaced by a new hypothesis that associates different dense Hardy subspaces to the in‐ and out‐scattering states. Then one can separate the scattering amplitude into a background amplitude and one or several “relativistic Breit‐Wigner” amplitudes, which represent the resonances per se. These Breit‐Wigner amplitudes have a precisely defined lineshape and are associated to exponentially decaying Gamow vectors which furnish the irreducible representation spaces of causal Poincaré transformations into the forward light cone.