Influence of the Sommerfeld Corrections to the Electric Polarizability of the Pion

Abstract

The valence-quark contribution to the electric polarizability of the pion in a semirelativistic description is shown to be smaller than its nonrelativistic limit.

Comments: 5 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum V," September 10 - 14, 2002, Gargnano, Italy