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Eight-component two-fermion equations

Ruth Haeckl, Viktor Hund, Hartmut Pilkuhn

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9802233

Abstract

An eight-component formalism is proposed for the relativistic two-fermion problem. In QED, it extends the applicability of the Dirac equation with hyperfine interaction to the positronium case. The use of exact relativistic two-body kinematics entails a CP-invariant spectrum which is symmetric in the total cms energy. It allows the extension of recent α6 recoil corrections to the positronium case, and implies new recoil corrections to the fine and hyperfine structures and to the Bethe logarithm.

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