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Hepth
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I can't seem to find one, but does anyone have a reference to the fourvector polarizations for a massive vector particle in spherical coordinates where a momentum is defined as
[tex]
p = \{E, |\vec{p}| \sin \theta \sin \phi, |\vec{p}|\sin \theta \cos \phi , |\vec{p}| \cos \theta\}
[/tex]
theta goes from 0..pi (angle off of z axis)
phi from 0..2 pi (angle about z axis)
So I'm just looking for the longitudinal and two transverse components of [itex]\epsilon^{\mu}[/itex]. (Circular basis is probably best).
I can find them for a particle in its rest frame, but I need it in any generic frame (or rather something else's rest frame).
Maye its just obvious and I'm missing it but I can't seem to find it anywhere in generic angles.
[tex]
p = \{E, |\vec{p}| \sin \theta \sin \phi, |\vec{p}|\sin \theta \cos \phi , |\vec{p}| \cos \theta\}
[/tex]
theta goes from 0..pi (angle off of z axis)
phi from 0..2 pi (angle about z axis)
So I'm just looking for the longitudinal and two transverse components of [itex]\epsilon^{\mu}[/itex]. (Circular basis is probably best).
I can find them for a particle in its rest frame, but I need it in any generic frame (or rather something else's rest frame).
Maye its just obvious and I'm missing it but I can't seem to find it anywhere in generic angles.