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Influence of a medium on coherent scattering of high-energy photon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The coherent scattering of photon in the Coulomb field (the Delbr\"uck scattering) is considered for the momentum transfer Δm\Delta \ll m in the frame of the quasiclassical operator method. In high-energy region this process occurs over rather long distance. The process amplitude is calculated taking into account the multiple scattering of particles of the intermediate electron-positron pair in a medium. The result is the suppression of the process.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0009270,
  title  = {Influence of a medium on coherent scattering of high-energy photon},
  author = {V. N. Baier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0009270},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 1 Postscript figure, talk given at the International Conference "Quantization, Gauge Theory and Strings" dedicated to memory of Professor E.S.Fradkin, Moscow, June 5-10, 2000