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Massive twistor worldline in electromagnetic fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the (ambi-)twistor model for spinning particles interacting via electromagnetic field, as a toy model for studying classical dynamics of gravitating bodies including effects of both spins to all orders. We compute the momentum kick and spin kick up to one-loop order and show precisely how they are encoded in the classical eikonal. The all-orders-in-spin effects are encoded as a dynamical implementation of the Newman-Janis shift, and we find that the expansion in both spins can be resummed to simple expressions in special kinematic configurations, at least up to one-loop order. We confirm that the classical eikonal can be understood as the generator of canonical transformations that map the in-states of a scattering process to the out-states. We also remark that cut contributions for converting worldline propagators from time-symmetric to retarded amount to the iterated action of the leading eikonal at one-loop order.

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@article{arxiv.2405.17056,
  title  = {Massive twistor worldline in electromagnetic fields},
  author = {Joon-Hwi Kim and Jung-Wook Kim and Sangmin Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17056},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

74 pages, 15 figures; (v2) 76 pages, 15 figures; additional references; extended discussions on singularity structures of axial scattering eikonal

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