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The Fermionic Propagator in an Intense Background

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-03 v3

Abstract

New results for the fermion propagator in a laser background are presented. We show that the all orders electron propagator can be written in a compact and appealing form as a sum of sideband poles with a matrix wave function renormalisation and a matrix valued mass shift. This last result is essential in the fermionic theory if we are to maintain that both the mass and its square pick up a correction only at order e^2. A perturbative verification of our results is carried out.

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@article{arxiv.1502.06529,
  title  = {The Fermionic Propagator in an Intense Background},
  author = {Martin Lavelle and David McMullan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06529},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 2 figures, minor amendments and references added. Version to appear in Physical Review D

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