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Elementarity of composite systems

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arxiv 1406.3684 v2 pith:TEEVX6KE submitted 2014-06-14 hep-ph nucl-th

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The "compositeness" or "elementarity" is investigated for s-wave composite states dynamically generated by energy-dependent and independent interactions. The bare mass of the corresponding fictitious elementary particle in an equivalent Yukawa model is shown to be infinite, indicating that the wave function renormalization constant Z is equal to zero. The idea can be equally applied to both resonant and bound states. In a special case of zero-energy bound states, the condition Z = 0 does not necessarily mean that the elementary particle has the infinite bare mass. We also emphasize arbitrariness in the "elementarity" leading to multiple interpretations of a physical state, which can be either a pure composite state with Z = 0 or an elementary particle with Z \ne 0. The arbitrariness is unavoidable because the renormalization constant Z is not a physical observable.

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  1. A variation on "compositeness" (including higher partial waves)

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    For finite-range potentials, the compositeness of a bound state is exactly proportional to the probability of finding the particle outside a chosen radius, with a universal factor depending on angular momentum.

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