Abstract

Starting with partial wave projections of the Compton scattering invariant amplitudes free of kinematical singularities or zeros, generalized electric and magnetic multipole polarizabilities of spin-0 and spin- 1 2 hadrons are introduced as threshold limits of the non-Born parts of the corresponding electric and magnetic Compton multipoles. These objects, which enter the higher low-energy theorems for elastic γ-hadron scattering, are shown to be acceptable quantum field theoretical generalizations of the usual static multipolar polarizabilities encountered in classical electrodynamics or non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Using the analyticity properties of the amplitudes, sum rules for the generalized electric and magnetic quadrupole polarizabilities of the proton and the pions are written down and evaluated numerically within the two-particle unitarity approximation.

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