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Many integral equation-based methods are available for problems of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. Among the many challenges that arise in such calculations are the avoidance of spurious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Felipe Vico , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil , Manas Rachh

The scattering equations are a set of algebraic equations connecting the kinematic space of massless particles and the moduli space of Riemann spheres with marked points. We present an efficient method for solving the scattering equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Zhengwen Liu , Xiaoran Zhao

Background: Path integrals are a powerful tool for solving problems in quantum theory that are not amenable to a treatment by perturbation theory. Most path integral computations require an analytic continuation to imaginary time. While…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 W. N. Polyzou , Ekaterina Nathanson

We obtain a nonperturbative, analytical solution to integral equation of scattering theory by assuming the field within the scattering object is a spherical wave with a scattering amplitude equal to that of the far field. This approximation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Brian Slovick , Srini Krishnamurthy

The numerically stable evaluation of scattering matrix elements near the infrared limit of gauge theories is of great importance for the success of collider physics experiments. We present a novel algorithm that utilizes double precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Enrico Bothmann , John M. Campbell , Stefan Höche , Max Knobbe

We obtained the spectrum of the Sinai billiard as the zeroes of a secular equation, which is based on the scattering matrix of a related scattering problem. We show that this quantization method provides an efficient numerical scheme, and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Holger Schanz , Uzy Smilansky

Group theoretical methods are used to study the equations describing \chi^{(2)}:\chi^{(2)} cascading. The equations are shown not to be integrable by inverse scattering techniques. On the other hand, these equations do share some of the…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Lafortune , P. Winternitz , C. R. Menyuk

We study the scattering of particles and quasiparticles in the framework of algebraic quantum field theory. The main novelty is the construction of inclusive scattering matrix related to inclusive cross-sections. The inclusive scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-11 Albert Schwarz

The usefulness of recursive equations to compute scattering matrix elements for arbitrary processes is discussed. Explicit results at tree and one-loop order, obtained by the HELAC/PHEGAS package that is based on the Dyson-Schwinger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Draggiotis , A. van Hameren , R. Kleiss , A. Lazopoulos , C. G. Papadopoulos , M. Worek

In this paper we study an algebra that naturally combines two familiar operations in scattering amplitudes: computations of volumes of polytopes using triangulations and constructions of canonical forms from products of smaller ones. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Freddy Cachazo , Nick Early , Alfredo Guevara , Sebastian Mizera

The CHY scattering equations on the moduli space $M_{0,n}$ play a prominent role at the interface of particle physics and algebraic statistics. We study the scattering correspondence when the Mandelstam invariants are restricted to a fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Barbara Betti , Viktoriia Borovik , Bella Finkel , Bernd Sturmfels , Bailee Zacovic

Relying on Feynman-Kac path-integral methodology, we present a new statistical perspective on wave single-scattering by complex three-dimensional objects. The approach is implemented on three models -- Schiff approximation, Born…

We present a general algorithm to show that a scattering operator associated to a semilinear dispersive equation is real analytic, and to compute the coefficients of its Taylor series at any point. We illustrate this method in the case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-13 Rémi Carles , Isabelle Gallagher

We show that the half-integrands in the CHY representation of tree amplitudes give rise to the definition of differential forms -- the scattering forms -- on the moduli space of a Riemann sphere with $n$ marked points. These differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Leonardo de la Cruz , Alexander Kniss , Stefan Weinzierl

The use of orthonormal wavelet basis functions for solving singular integral scattering equations is investigated. It is shown that these basis functions lead to sparse matrix equations which can be solved by iterative techniques. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 B. M. Kessler , G. L. Payne , W. N. Polyzou

In the CHY-frame for the amplitudes, there are two kinds of singularities we need to deal with. The first one is the pole singularities when the kinematics is not general, such that some of $S_A\to 0$. The second one is the collapse of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Bo Feng , Chang Hu , Yaobo Zhang

The aim of the lecture is to briefly describe the mathematical background of scattering theory for two- and three-particle quantum systems. We discuss basic objects of the theory: wave and scattering operators and the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Dmitri Yafaev

We investigate in the context of the scattering equations, how one-loop linear propagator integrands in gauge theories can be linked to integrands with quadratic propagators using a double forward limit. We illustrate our procedure through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-09 Johannes Agerskov , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Humberto Gomez , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos

We present a quantum algorithm for the calculation of scattering amplitudes of massive charged scalar particles in scalar quantum electrodynamics. Our algorithm is based on continuous-variable quantum computing architecture resulting in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , George Siopsis

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville