Worldline approach to helicity flip in plane waves
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

We apply worldline methods to the study of vacuum polarization effects in plane wave backgrounds, in both scalar and spinor QED. We calculate helicity-flip probabilities to one loop order and treated exactly in the background field, and provide a toolkit of methods for use in investigations of higher-order processes. We also discuss the connections between the worldline, S-matrix, and lightfront approaches to vacuum polarization effects.

Författare

Antony Ilderton

Chalmers, Fysik, Teoretisk fysik

Greger Torgrimsson

Chalmers, Fysik, Teoretisk fysik

Physical Review D

2470-0010 (ISSN) 2470-0029 (eISSN)

Vol. 93 8 085006

Ämneskategorier

Fysik

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.93.085006

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