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In this article, we study the Coulomb corrections to the Delbrueck scattering amplitude. We consider the limit when the energy of the photon is much less than the electron mass. The calculations are carried out in the coordinate…
The contribution of the light-by-light diagram to the g factor of electron and muon bound in Coulomb field is obtained. For electron in a ground state, our results are in good agreement with the results of other authors obtained numerically…
We compute an $\mathcal{O}\left(\alpha^2(Z\alpha)^6\right)$ contribution to the hydrogen-atom Lamb shift arising from the light-by-light scattering. Analogous diagrams, with one atomic electric field insertion replaced by an external…
Contrary to what was previously believed, two-loop radiative corrections to the $g$-factor of an electron bound in a hydrogen-like ion at $\mathcal{O}\left(\alpha^2 (Z\alpha)^5\right)$ exhibit logarithmic enhancement. This previously…
We present a theoretical method to calculate Delbr\"uck scattering amplitudes for photon energies above the electron-positron pair production threshold. The method is based on the application of the relativistic Dirac-Coulomb Green function…
Elastic scattering of photons in a Lorentz-scalar potential via virtual spin-zero particle-antiparticle pairs (`` Delbr\"uck scattering") is considered. An analytic expression for the Delbr\"uck amplitude is found exactly in case of an…
The coherent scattering of photon in the Coulomb field (the Delbr\"uck scattering) is considered for the momentum transfer $\Delta \ll m$ in the frame of the quasiclassical operator method. In high-energy region this process occurs over…
We present a theoretical method to calculate Delbr\"uck scattering amplitudes. Our formalism is based on the exact analytical Dirac-Coulomb Green's function and, therefore, accounts for the interaction of the virtual electron-positron pair…
The scattering of photons of x-ray energy off a Coulomb field in very forward scattering region may be thought as the refraction effect due to the Coulomb field. The cross section of the scattering can be computed from the photon bending…
We calculate the cross section of the electron scattering from a bound nucleon within light-front approximation. The advantage of this approximation is the possibility of systematic account for the off-shell effects which become essential…
The coherent scattering of photon in the Coulomb field (the Delbr\"uck scattering) is considered for the momentum transfer $\Delta \ll m$ in the frame of the quasiclassical operator method. In high-energy region this process occurs over…
We return to the problem of evaluation of the light-by-light contribution to the energy levels of the hydrogen atom. We find an additional contribution directly related to the Delbr\"uck scattering amplitude. The new correction is larger…
We derive the low-energy expansion of $(Z\alpha) ^{2}$ and $(Z\alpha) ^{4}$ terms of the polarization operator in the Coulomb field. Physical applications such as the low-energy Delbr\"{u}ck scattering and "magnetic loop" contribution to…
We calculate the effects on the elastic electron-proton scattering cross section of the two-photon exchange contribution with an intermediate $\Delta$ resonance. The $\Delta$ two-photon exchange contribution is found to be smaller in…
We study Delbr\"uck scattering in a Coulomb field in the presence of a laser field. The amplitudes are calculated in the Born approximation with respect to the Coulomb field and exactly in the parameters of the laser field having arbitrary…
We bound EFT coefficients appearing in $2 \to 2$ photon scattering amplitudes in four dimensions. After reviewing unitarity and positivity conditions in this context, we use dispersion relations and crossing symmetry to compute sum rules…
Delbrueck scattering is an elastic scattering of a photon in the Coulomb field of a nucleus via a virtual electron loop. The contribution of this virtual subprocess to the emission of a photon in the collision of ultra-relativistic nuclei…
The differential cross section of Delbr\"{u}ck scattering is measured on a bismuth germanate $Bi_4Ge_3O_{12}$ target at photon energies $140 - 450 MeV$ and scattering angles $2.6 - 16.6 mrad$. A good agreement with the theoretical results,…
We formulate a quantitative description of backscattered linearly polarized light using an extended photon diffusion formalism taking explicitly into account the scattering anisotropy parameter g of the medium. From diffusing wave…
The radiative self-energy correction to the bound-electron g factor of 2P_1/2 and 2P_3/2 states in one-electron ions is evaluated to order alpha (Z alpha)^2. The contribution of high-energy virtual photons is treated by means of an…