All orders factorization and the Coulomb problem

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Main Authors: Hill, Richard J., Plestid, Ryan
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Published: 2023
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contents In the limit of large nuclear charge, $Z\gg 1$, or small lepton velocity, $β\ll 1$, Coulomb corrections to nuclear beta decay and related processes are enhanced as $Zα/β$ and become large or even non-perturbative (with $α$ the QED fine structure constant). We provide a constructive demonstration of factorization to all orders in perturbation theory for these processes and compute the all-orders hard and soft functions appearing in the factorization formula. We clarify the relationship between effective field theory amplitudes and historical treatments of beta decay in terms of a Fermi function.
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Hill, Richard J.
Plestid, Ryan
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
In the limit of large nuclear charge, $Z\gg 1$, or small lepton velocity, $β\ll 1$, Coulomb corrections to nuclear beta decay and related processes are enhanced as $Zα/β$ and become large or even non-perturbative (with $α$ the QED fine structure constant). We provide a constructive demonstration of factorization to all orders in perturbation theory for these processes and compute the all-orders hard and soft functions appearing in the factorization formula. We clarify the relationship between effective field theory amplitudes and historical treatments of beta decay in terms of a Fermi function.
title All orders factorization and the Coulomb problem
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15929