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We discuss radiation in theories with scalar fields. Our key observation is that even in flat spacetime, the radiative fields depend qualitatively on the coupling of the scalar field to the Ricci scalar: for non-minimally coupled scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Bartomeu Fiol , Jairo Martínez-Montoya

The process of resonant spontaneous bremsstrahlung radiation during the scattering of ultrarelativistic electrons with energies of the order $\sim 100\ \text{GeV}$ by the nuclei in strong laser fields with intensities up to $I\sim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 S. P. Roshchupkin , A. V. Dubov , V. V. Dubov , S. S. Starodub

We study the classical radiation emitted by free-falling charges in de Sitter spacetime coupled to different kinds of fields. Specifically we consider the cases of the electromagnetic field, linearized gravity and scalar fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-11 E. T. Akhmedov , Albert Roura , A. Sadofyev

We consider higher-dimensional massive Brans-Dicke theory with Ricci-flat internal space. The background model is perturbed by a massive gravitating source which is pressureless in the external (our space) but has an arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-03 Ozgur Akarsu , Alexey Chopovsky , Valerii Shulga , Ezgi Yalcinkaya , Alexander Zhuk

The scalar-tensor theory of gravity, a modified gravity theory, introduces a fundamental scalar field that can serve as dynamical dark energy, driving the late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe. In this work, we analyze…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Wenyi Wang , Sousuke Noda , Taishi Katsuragawa

There has been interest recently on particle physics models that may give rise to sharp gamma ray spectral features from dark matter annihilation. Because dark matter is supposed to be electrically neutral, it is challenging to build weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Federica Giacchino , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We investigate the interference pattern in the spectrum of non-dipole bremsstrahlung on two amorphous foils. Apart from suppression at lowest $\omega$, the spectrum exhibits an enhancement adjacent to it. In classical electrodynamics, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 M. V. Bondarenco , N. F. Shul'ga

In this work, we analytically investigate the effects of the scalar self-force exerted by a massless scalar field on a particle in a slightly eccentric orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. By solving the Klein-Gordon equation in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Salvatore Capozziello , Nicola Menadeo , Davide Usseglio

It is shown that an ultrarelativistic shock with the Lorentz factor of order of tens or higher propagating in a moderately dense interstellar medium (density above $\sim 1000 $ cm$^{-3}$) undergoes a fast dramatic transformation into a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris E. Stern

The neutral massless scalar quantum field $\Phi$ in four-dimensional space-time is considered, which is subject to a simple bilinear self-interaction. Is is well-known from renormalization theory that adding a term of the form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-19 Andreas Aste

Particle collisions are considered within the context of $f(R)$ gravity described by $f(R)=R+2\alpha\sqrt{R}$, where $R$ stands for the Ricci scalar and $\alpha$ is a non-zero constant. The center of mass (CM) energy of head-on colliding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-16 M. Halilsoy , A. Ovgun

A comprehensive description is given of a space--time model of an accelerating massive particle. The particle radiates gravitational waves with optical shear. The wave fronts are smoothly deformed spheres and the particle experiences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-27 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld

A particle produced in a hard collision can lose energy through bremsstrahlung. It has long been of interest to calculate the effect on bremsstrahlung if the particle is produced inside a finite-size QCD medium such as a quark-gluon plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 Peter Arnold

The role that the auxiliary scalar field $\phi$ played in Brans-Dicke cosmology is discussed. If a constant vacuum energy is assumed to be the origin of dark energy, then the corresponding density parameter would be a quantity varying with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Chi-Yi Chen , Kang Li , You-Gen Shen

We consider the processes of polarization bremsstrahlung in collisions of fast ions with linear chains consisting of isolated atoms. We obtained intensities and angular distributions of radiation spectra for arbitrary number of atoms in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Ya. Amusia , V. I. Matveev

The leading-order electron-atom bremsstrahlung is investigated within the rigorous relativistic approach based on the partial-wave representation of the Dirac wave functions in the external atomic field. Approximating the atomic target by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Vladimir A. Yerokhin , Andrey Surzhykov

We present a theory of ultrarelativistic collisionless shocks based on the relativistic kinetic two-stream instability. We demonstrate that the shock front is unstable to the generation of small-scale, randomly tangled magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Mikhail V. Medvedev

A Gauss-Bonnet (GB) coupled scalar field $\phi$, responsible for the late-time cosmic acceleration and interacting with a coherent scalar field $\psi$ through an interaction potential $W(\phi,\psi)$, is considered from the point of view of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Saddam Hussain , Simran Arora , Yamuna Rana , Benjamin Rose , Anzhong Wang

The ultrarelativistic limit of the Kerr - Newman geometry is studied in detail. We find the gravitational shock wave background associated with this limit. We study the scattering of scalar fields in the gravitational shock wave geometries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. O. Lousto , N. Sánchez

We study scalar field and electromagnetic perturbations on Locally Rotationally Symmetric (LRS) class II spacetimes, exploiting a recently developed covariant and gauge-invariant perturbation formalism. From the Klein-Gordon equation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Gerold Betschart , Chris A. Clarkson