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Infra-red divergences in plane wave backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that the emission of soft photons via nonlinear Compton scattering in a pulsed plane wave (laser field) is in general infra-red divergent. We give examples of both soft and soft-collinear divergences, and we pay particular attention to the case of crossed fields in both classical and quantum theories.

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@article{arxiv.1206.3957,
  title  = {Infra-red divergences in plane wave backgrounds},
  author = {Victor Dinu and Thomas Heinzl and Anton Ilderton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3957},
  year   = {2013}
}

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15 pages, 7 figures

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