Scattering in plane-wave backgrounds: infra-red effects and pole structure
arXiv:1210.6840 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.085040
Abstract
We consider two aspects of scattering in strong plane wave backgrounds. First, we show that the infra-red divergences in elastic scattering depend on the structure of the background, but can be removed using the usual Bloch-Nordsieck approach. Second, we analyse the infinite series of shifted-mass-shell poles in the particle (Volkov) propagator using lightfront quantisation. The complete series of poles is shown to describe a single, on-shell, propagating particle.
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