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Electron Anomalous Magnetic Moment in Basis Light-Front Quantization Approach

James P. VaryStanley J. BrodskyH. HonkanenPieter MarisXingbo Zhao

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PhysicsParticle physicsPhotonNuclear TheoryAnomalous magnetic dipole moment010308 nuclear & particles physicsHamiltonian field theoryFOS: Physical sciencesElectron01 natural sciencesAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsNuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyQuantization (physics)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Light front quantizationQuantum electrodynamics0103 physical sciences010306 general physicsGround stateEigenvalues and eigenvectors

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We apply the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach to the Hamiltonian field theory of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in free space. We solve for the mass eigenstates corresponding to an electron interacting with a single photon in light-front gauge. Based on the resulting non-perturbative ground state light-front amplitude we evaluate the electron anomalous magnetic moment. The numerical results from extrapolating to the infinite basis limit reproduce the perturbative Schwinger result with relative deviation less than 0.6%. We report significant improvements over previous works including the development of analytic methods for evaluating the vertex matrix elements of QED.

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2011-10-03
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1110.0553