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In effective quantum field theory, a spin-1 vector boson can have a technically natural small mass that does not originate from the Higgs mechanism. For such theories, which may be written in St\"uckelberg form, there is no point in field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Matthew Reece

Large Gauge Transformations (LGT) are gauge transformations that do not vanish at infinity. Instead, they asymptotically approach arbitrary functions on the conformal sphere at infinity. Recently, it was argued that the LGT should be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Barak Gabai , Amit Sever

The Wilsonian exact renormalization group gives a natural framework in which ultraviolet and infrared divergences can be treated separately. In massless QED we introduce, as the only mass parameter, a renormalization scale $\L_R > 0$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Pernici , M. Raciti , F. Riva

We present several results on memory effects, asymptotic symmetry and soft theorems in massive QED. We first clarify in what sense the memory effects are interpreted as the charge conservation of the large gauge transformations, and derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Hayato Hirai , Sotaro Sugishita

The soft breaking of gauge or other symmetries is the typical Quantum Field Theory phenomenon. In many cases one can apply the St$\ddot{\rm u}$ckelberg procedure, which means introducing some additional field or fields and restore the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. L. Buchbinder , G. de Berredo-Peixoto , I. L. Shapiro

This paper is devoted to the scattering of photons at electrons in models of non-relativistic quantum mechanical particles coupled minimally to the soft modes of the quantized electromagnetic field. We prove existence of scattering states…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-10 Marcel Griesemer , Heribert Zenk

Recently Sahoo and Sen obtained a series of remarkable results concerning sub-leading soft photon and graviton theorems in four dimensions. Even though the S- matrix is infrared divergent, they have shown that the sub-leading soft theorems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

We extend the method of differential renormalization to massive quantum field theories treating in particular $\ph4$-theory and QED. As in the massless case, the method proves to be simple and powerful, and we are able to find, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Peter Haagensen , Jose I. Latorre

Memory effects in scattering processes are described in terms of the asymptotic retarded fields. These fields are completely determined by the scattering data and the zero mode part is set by the soft photon theorem. The dressed asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Cesar Gomez , Raoul Letschka

We discuss the non-perturbative renormalization group flow of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) coupled to Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) and explore the possibilities for defining its continuum limit at a fixed point that would lead to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Ulrich Harst , Martin Reuter

A new attempt is demonstrated that QFTs can be UV finite if they are viewed as the low energy effective theories of a fundamental underlying theory (that is complete and well-defined in all respects) according to the modern standard point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jifeng Yang

We discuss information-theoretic properties of low-energy photons and gravitons in the S-matrix. Given an incoming n-particle momentum eigenstate, we demonstrate that unobserved soft photons decohere nearly all outgoing momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-08 Daniel Carney , Laurent Chaurette , Dominik Neuenfeld , Gordon Walter Semenoff

We reconsider the recently proposed nonlinear QED effect of quantum reflection of photons off an inhomogeneous strong-field region. We present new results for strong fields varying both in space and time. While such configurations can give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-30 Holger Gies , Felix Karbstein , Nico Seegert

We review various aspects of (infinite) quantum group symmetries in 2D massive quantum field theories. We discuss how these symmetries can be used to exactly solve the integrable models. A possible way for generalizing to three dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis Bernard

We study soft photon emission during scattering of Faddeev-Kulish charged states in QED, at leading order in perturbation theory. The charged asymptotic particles are accompanied by clouds of an infinite number of soft photons of energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Stavros Christodoulou , Nicolaos Toumbas

For the coupled system of classical Maxwell-Lorentz equations we show that the quantities \begin{equation*} \mathfrak{F}(\hat x, t)=\lim_{|x|\to \infty} |x|^2 F(x,t), \quad \mathcal{F}(\hat k, t)=\lim_{|k|\to 0} |k| \widehat{F}(k,t),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 Wojciech Dybalski , Duc Viet Hoang

We consider scattering of light by light in Very Special Relativity (VSR) Quantum Electrodynamics(QED) with a non-zero photon mass. In order to preserve gauge invariance and Sim(2) symmetry we made use of a recently introduced infrared…

General Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 J. Alfaro

We consider a spin-$\frac12$ electron in a translation-invariant model of non-relativistic Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). Let $H(\vp,\sig)$ denote the fiber Hamiltonian corresponding to the conserved total momentum $\vp\in\R^3$ of the Pauli…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Thomas Chen

In theories with long-range forces like QED or perturbative gravity, only rates that include emitted soft radiation are non-vanishing. Independently of detector resolution, finite observables can only be obtained after integrating over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Cesar Gomez , Raoul Letschka , Sebastian Zell

The soft photon theorem, in its standard form, requires corrections when the asymptotic particle states carry magnetic charges. These corrections are deduced using electromagnetic duality and the resulting soft formula conjectured to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew Strominger