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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 ρ\rho, and is therefore a continuous spin particle (CSP). The amplitudes reduce to familiar scalar QED when ρ0\rho\rightarrow 0. 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 ρ\rho.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:08:40.482Z