Retardation effects from quark confinement on low-energy nucleon dynamics

Abstract

Retardation effects from quark confinement on low-energy nucleon dynamics are investigated within the generalized quantum dynamics (GQD). It is shown that the GQD provides an extension of Hamiltonian dynamics which can describe the evolution of systems of hadrons whose interaction is nonlocal in time due to quark-gluon retardation effects. This is illustrated by the example of the dynamics of nucleons with internal structure described by a constitute quark model. It is shown that quark-gluon retardation effects result in an anomalous off-shell behavior of the two-nucleon amplitudes, and in a lack of continuity of the evolution operator describing nucleon dynamics; for this reason low-energy nucleon dynamics is not governed by the Schrödinger equation. This is shown to have substantial effects on the dynamics of many nucleon systems. It is also shown that the GQD allows one to take into account retardation effects from quark confinement in describing the short-range part of the $NN$ interaction. PACS number(s): 24.85.+p, 13.75.Cs, 21.30.-x

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