| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 204, 2019
XXIV International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems “Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics” (Baldin ISHEPP XXIV)
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| Article Number | 01014 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| Section | Plenary Session | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920401014 | |
| Published online | 03 April 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920401014
Bound states of purely relativistic nature
1 Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia
2 Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, France
* e-mail: karmanov@sci.lebedev.ru
** e-mail: carbonell@ipno.in2p3.fr
*** e-mail: sazdjian@ipno.in2p3.fr
Published online: 3 April 2019
Two particles interacting by photon exchange, form the bound states predicted by the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation with the Coulomb potential (Balmer series). More than 60 years ago, in the solutions of relativistic Bethe-Salpeter equation, in addition to the Balmer series, were found another series of energy levels. These new series, appearing when the fine structure constant α is large enough (α > π/4), are not predicted by the Schrödinger equation. However, this new (non-Balmer) states can hardly exist in nature, since in order to create a strong e.m. field with α > π/4 a point-like charge Z > 107 is needed. The nuclei having this charge, though exist starting with bohrium, are far from to be point-like.
In the present paper, we analyze the more realistic case of a strong interaction created by exchange of a massive particle. It turns out that in the framework of the Bethe-Salpeter equation this interaction still generates a series of new relativistic states, which are similar to those of the massless exchange case, and which are absent in the Schrödinger equation. The properties of these solutions are studied. Their existence in nature seems possible.
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