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Compton scattering in Bandos-Lechner-Sorokin-Townsend nonlinear electrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-22 v2 Optics

Abstract

The nonlinear electrodynamics proposed by Bandos, Lechner, Sorokin and Townsend is a remarkable theory that unifies Maxwell, Bialynicki-Birula and ModMax theories, which are known theories invariant under conformal transformations and electromagnetic duality transformations. In the Bandos-Lechner-Sorokin-Townsend nonlinear electrodynamics, we calculate the energy flux density, dispersion relations, refractive indices, phase and group velocities of plane waves as well as the changes of the photon wavelength in the Compton scattering process in the presence of a constant uniform electromagnetic background. Our results are useful for testing and constraining this new theory of nonlinear electrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.2403.20044,
  title  = {Compton scattering in Bandos-Lechner-Sorokin-Townsend nonlinear electrodynamics},
  author = {Yang Shi and Towe Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.20044},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures, dispersion relations reconsidered in Sect III, references added

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