Electromagnetic interactions of three-body systems in the covariant spectator theory

Abstract

We derive a complete Feynman diagram expansion for the elastic form factor and the three-body photo and electrodisintegration of the three-body bound state using the covariant spectator theory. We show that the equations obtained are fully consistent with bound-state equations and the normalization condition previously derived for the covariant three-body bound state, and that the results conserve current.

Comments: 19 pages and 35 figures