Quantum Electrodynamics Mediated by a Photon with Generalized (Continuous) Spin
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-11-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We present rules for computing scattering amplitudes of charged scalar matter and photons, where the photon has non-zero spin Casimir , and is therefore a continuous spin particle (CSP). The amplitudes reduce to familiar scalar QED when . As a concrete example, we compute the pair annihilation and Compton scattering amplitudes in this theory and comment on their physical properties, including unitarity and scaling behavior at small and large .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2308.16218,
title = {Quantum Electrodynamics Mediated by a Photon with Generalized (Continuous) Spin},
author = {Philip Schuster and Natalia Toro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.16218},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
v2: 41 pages -- added new appendix deriving relevant path integral identities to make paper more self-contained, v1 typos corrected