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I present the computation of the two-loop amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon in massless QED. We apply modern techniques developed to tackle QCD amplitudes with many scales: we express…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Simone Zoia

We use on-shell Supersymmetry to constrain the three-point function of two massless particles and one massive particle in 3+1 dimensions. We use this information to write down the tree-level four-point function of massless particles for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Mahesh K. N. Balasubramanian , Kushal Chakraborty , Arnab Rudra , Arnab Priya Saha

The worldline formalism has previously been used for deriving compact master formulas for the one-loop N-photon amplitudes in both scalar and spinor QED, and in the vacuum as well as in a constant external field. For scalar QED, there is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-11 Aftab Ahmad , Naser Ahmadiniaz , Olindo Corradini , Sang Pyo Kim , Christian Schubert

We present a formalism for a fully coherent QED parton shower. The complete multipole structure of photonic radiation is incorporated in a single branching kernel. The regular on-shell 2 to 3 kinematic picture is kept intact by dividing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Ronald Kleiss , Rob Verheyen

We compute one-loop electron-photon vertex with fully off-shell external momenta in an arbitrary covariant gauge and space-time dimension. There exist numerous efforts in literature where one-loop off-shell vertex is calculated by employing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-10 Victor Miguel Banda Guzmán , Adnan Bashir

Off-shell celestial amplitudes with both time-like and space-like external legs are defined. The Feynman rules for scalar amplitudes, viewed as a set of recursion relations for off-shell momentum space amplitudes, are transformed to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-28 Walker Melton

We discuss a reformulation of QED in which matter and gauge fields are integrated out explicitly, resulting in a many-body Lorentz covariant theory of 0+1 dimensional worldlines describing super-pairs of spinning charges interacting through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Xabier Feal , Andrey Tarasov , Raju Venugopalan

We have calculated the one-loop scattering amplitude of an electron by an external Coulomb potential in QED free of infrared divergences. This feature is achieved by applying the Faddeev-Kulish formalism, which implies a redefinition of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 J. A. Oller , Marcela Peláez

We evaluate the on shell form factors of the electron for arbitrary momentum transfer and finite electron mass, at two loops in QED, by integrating the corresponding dispersion relations, which involve the imaginary parts known since a long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi

We compute the two-loop QED helicity amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon, $0\to\ell\bar\ell\gamma\gamma^*$, using the approximation of massless leptons. We express all master integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Simon Badger , Jakub Kryś , Ryan Moodie , Simone Zoia

We consider the on-shell amplitudes in N=(1,1) SYM in D=6 dimensions within the spinor helicity and on-shell superspace formalism. This leads to an effective and straightforward technique reducing the calculation to a set of scalar master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , D. E. Vlasenko

The worldline formalism allows one to obtain compact integral representations combining the information of large numbers of Feynman diagrams. However, their analytic calculation leads to a non-standard integration problem for which existing…

Forward scattering amplitude of the virtual longitudinal photon at zero energy on electron in QED in the limit of small photon virtualities is calculated. The first radiation corrections are taken into account. Two terms in the expansion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Samsonov

We calculate all the four-photon helicity amplitudes at the one-loop level in a massive theory using multiple-cut methods. The amplitudes are derived in scalar QED, QED and $\textrm{QED}^{\caln =1}$ theories. We will see the origin of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Christophe Bernicot

We find the correct spinor amplitude for a simple photon-mediated process and show that, in contrast, the result for the same process using the standard constructive techniques do not agree with Feynman diagrams when the fermions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Neil Christensen , Harold Diaz-Quiroz , Bryan Field , Justin Hayward , John Miles

We use the solutions to the recursion relations for double-off-shell fermion currents to compute helicity amplitudes for $n$-photon scattering and electron-positron annihilation to photons in the massless limit of QED. The form of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon

The purely on-shell approach to effective field theories requires the construction of independent contact terms. Employing the little-group-covariant massive-spinor formalism, we present the first systematic derivation of independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-21 Gauthier Durieux , Teppei Kitahara , Camila S. Machado , Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

We report on the status of the string-inspired world line path integral formalism, a recently developed powerful tool for the reorganisation of standard perturbative amplitudes in quantum field theory. The method is outlined and the present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael G. Schmidt , Christian Schubert

We present the analytic evaluation of the two-loop corrections to the amplitude for the scattering of four fermions in Quantum Electrodynamics, $f^- + f^+ + F^- + F^+ \to 0$, with $f$ and $F$ representing a massless and a massive lepton,…

We compute the photon self-energy to three loops in Quantum Electrodynamics. The method of differential equations for Feynman integrals and a complete $\epsilon$-factorization of the former allow us to obtain fully analytical results in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Felix Forner , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi