Dress code for infrared safe scattering in QED

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTAD057zbMATH Open1528.81208arXiv2209.00608OpenAlexW4367299890MaRDI QIDQ6170481FDOQ6170481

Authors: Hayato Hirai, Sotaro Sugishita 

Publication date: 12 July 2023

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the $S$-matrix and inclusive cross-section for general dressed states in quantum electrodynamics. We obtain an infrared factorization formula of the $S$-matrix elements for general dressed states. It enables us to study what dressed states lead to infrared-safe $S$-matrix elements. The condition for dressed states can be interpreted as the memory effect which is nothing but the conservation law of the asymptotic symmetry. We derive the generalized soft photon theorem for general dressed states. We also compute inclusive cross-section using general dressed states. It is necessary to use appropriate initial and final dressed states to evaluate interference effects, which cannot be computed correctly by using Fock states due to the infrared divergence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00608

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Coherent states (81R30) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Memory and learning in psychology (91E40) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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