English
Related papers

Related papers: Bounds on photon scattering

200 papers

We discuss recursion relations for scattering amplitudes with massive particles of any spin. They are derived via a two-parameter shift of momenta, combining a BCFW-type spinor shift with the soft limit of a massless particle involved in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Adam Falkowski , Camila S. Machado

We develop a new computational tool and framework for characterizing the scattering of photons by energy-nonconserving Hamiltonians into unidirectional (chiral) waveguides, for example, with coherent pulsed excitation. The temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Kevin A. Fischer , Rahul Trivedi , Vinay Ramasesh , Irfan Siddiqi , Jelena Vučković

We develop a spinor helicity formalism for five-dimensional scattering amplitudes of any mass and spin configuration. While five-dimensional spinor helicity variables have been previously studied in the context of N=2,4 supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Andrzej Pokraka , Smita Rajan , Lecheng Ren , Anastasia Volovich , W. Wayne Zhao

We develop a formalism, based on spinor-helicity techniques, to generalize the formulation of partial wave unitarity bounds. We discuss unitarity bounds for $N \to M$ (with $N,M \geq 2$) scattering processes -- relevant for high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Luigi C. Bresciani , Gabriele Levati , Paride Paradisi

We compute the scattering amplitude in Wilson Chiral Perturbation Theory for two flavors. The lattice spacing effects due to the explicit chiral symmetry breaking are kept through O(a^2), and we consider the regime where the quark mass m is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-21 Sinya Aoki , Oliver Bar , Benedikt Biedermann

We study the low-energy effective theories of photons and gravitons, matching them at one loop to a UV completion with a massive spinning matter particle. The matter is allowed to have non-minimal electromagnetic and gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-08 Edoardo Alviani , Adam Falkowski

We study on-shell scattering amplitudes for continuous-spin particles (CSPs). Poincar\'e invariance, little-group $ISO(2)$ covariance, analyticity, and on-shell factorisation (unitarity) impose stringent conditions on these amplitudes. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Brando Bellazzini , Stefano De Angelis , Marcello Romano

Under minimal regularity conditions on the photon dispersion and the coupling function, we prove that the spin-boson model with two massless photons in $\mathbb{R}^d$ cannot have more than two bound state energies whenever the coupling…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Orif O. Ibrogimov

We investigate the space of massive two-dimensional theories with a global U(N) symmetry and no bound states. Following S-matrix bootstrap principles, we establish rigorous bounds on the space of consistent $2 \rightarrow 2$ scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Lucía Cordova , Ricardo Rodrigues

We study the scattering dynamics of an $n$-component spinor wavefunction in a random environment on a two-dimensional lattice. In the presence of particle-hole symmetry we find diffusion on large scales. The latter is described by a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-30 K. Ziegler

In the Unitarity Limit, the NN S-wave binding energies are zero, the scattering lengths infinite, Physics is universal, i.e. insensitive to details of the interactions, and observables display richer symmetries, namely invariance under both…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Harald W. Griesshammer

We show that a natural spinor-helicity formalism that can describe massive scattering amplitudes exists in $D=6$ dimensions. This is arranged by having helicity spinors carry an index in the Dirac spinor {\bf 4} of the massive little group,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Rishabh Jha , Chethan Krishnan , K. V. Pavan Kumar

We use generalized elastic positivity bounds to constrain the parameter space of multi-field spin-2 effective field theories. These generalized bounds involve inelastic scattering amplitudes between particles with different masses, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Zi-Yue Wang , Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We discuss the low-energy behavior of the spin-averaged amplitude of virtual Compton scattering (VCS) off a nucleon. Based on gauge invariance, Lorentz invariance and the discrete symmetries, it is shown that to first order in the frequency…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Drechsel , G. Knoechlein , A. Metz , S. Scherer

We analyze polarized Compton scattering which provides information on the spin-structure of the nucleon. For scattering processes with photon energies up to 100 MeV the spin-structure dependence can be encoded into four independent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas R. Hemmert , Barry R. Holstein , Joachim Kambor , Germar Knoechlein

We consider the gravitational scattering of point particles in four dimensions, at Planckian centre of mass energy and low momentum transfer, or the eikonal approximation. The scattering amplitude can be exactly computed by modelling point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Saurya Das , Arundhati Dasgupta , P. Ramadevi , Tapobrata Sarkar

We posit a second massless photon, uncoupled to known forms of matter but undergoing Lorentz non-invariant velocity mixing with ordinary photons. Our speculation within a speculation suffers from the sin of implausibility but enjoys the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sheldon L. Glashow

We study the spectrum of the spin-boson model with two photons in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for arbitrary coupling $\alpha>0$. It is shown that the discrete spectrum is finite and the essential spectrum consists of a half-line the bottom of which is a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Orif O. Ibrogimov

The multidimensional space-time with $(D-4)$ compact extra space dimensions and SM fields confined on four-dimensional brane is considered. The elastic scattering amplitude of two particles interacting by gravitational forces is calculated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. V. Kisselev

I study constraints on fundamental physics emerging from consistency of a unitary, local and perturbative $S$-matrix in $4d$. For massless particles, some new constraints arising from consistent complex factorisation of $2\rightarrow 2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Timothy Trott