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Nonlinear photon trident versus double Compton scattering and resummation of one-step terms

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-01-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the photon trident process, where an initial photon turns into an electron-positron pair and a final photon under a nonlinear interaction with a strong plane-wave background field. We show that this process is very similar to double Compton scattering, where an electron interacts with the background field and emits two photons. We also show how the one-step terms can be obtained by resumming the small- and large-χ\chi expansions. We consider a couple of different resummation methods, and also propose new resummations (involving Meijer-G functions) which have the correct type of expansions at both small and large χ\chi. These new resummations require relatively few terms to give good precision.

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@article{arxiv.2010.02128,
  title  = {Nonlinear photon trident versus double Compton scattering and resummation of one-step terms},
  author = {Greger Torgrimsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02128},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages, 15 figures

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