Physics Letters B (Apr 2023)

The gravitational form factors of the electron in quantum electrodynamics

  • Adam Freese,
  • Andreas Metz,
  • Barbara Pasquini,
  • Simone Rodini

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 839
p. 137768

Abstract

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We calculate the gravitational form factors of the electron at one loop in quantum electrodynamics, decomposing these into contributions from the electron and photon parts of the energy momentum tensor. Ultraviolet divergences are removed through renormalization in the MS‾ scheme. Infrared divergences are isolated and results are given in both dimensional regularization and photon-mass regularization. The form factors contain information about the electron's energy and angular momentum structure in QED, as well as its mass radius. Whenever possible, we compare our results with the existing literature.

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