Vacuum-to-one-particle scalar matrix element

ID: vacuum-to-one-particle-scalar-matrix-element

For a massive spin-zero one-particle state with covariant normalization and a Lorentz scalar field, Lorentz invariance makes independent of the on-shell four-momentum within a fixed species. A Lorentz boost to the rest frame, invariance of the vacuum state and scalar transformation at the origin prove this. Translation covariance of a quantum field then supplies the plane-wave factor. With noncovariant normalization, the boost law and the displayed momentum independence acquire energy factors.

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