Tests of Electric Polarizability on the Lattice
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چکیده
Using clover fermions on CP-PACS dynamical configurations, we consider a number of ways of measuring hadronic electric polarizability, an |E|2 effect in hadron masses, using lattice techniques. We consider the effects of periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions, the field linearization postulate as well as a quantized electric field. We also consider two ways of formulating the classical vector potential which describes a uniform electric field in combination with the other possibilities.
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