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Coulomb potential from a particle in uniform ultrarelativistic motion

A. J. Baltz

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9511004

Abstract

The Coulomb potential produced by an ultrarelativistic particle (such as a heavy ion) in uniform motion is shown in the appropriate gauge to factorize into a longitudinal Dirac delta function of (z - t) times the simple two dimensional potential solution in the transverse direction. This form makes manifest the source of the energy independence of the interaction.

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