Worldline Proof of Eikonal Exponentiation

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Auteurs principaux: Du, Yuchen, Ajith, Siddarth, Rajagopal, Ravisankar, Vaman, Diana
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author Du, Yuchen
Ajith, Siddarth
Rajagopal, Ravisankar
Vaman, Diana
author_facet Du, Yuchen
Ajith, Siddarth
Rajagopal, Ravisankar
Vaman, Diana
contents In this paper, working in the eikonal approximation, we present a proof for the exponentiation of the 2-body eikonal phase to {\it all orders in the eikonal expansion}, for scalar particles interacting electromagnetically or gravitationally. The proof is based on the worldline formalism, which is an alternative, first quantized method to the standard QFT calculation of the scattering amplitude. We show that in the worldline formalism the 2-body scattering amplitude written in impact parameter space naturally factorizes at each loop order. This factorization is responsible for the exponentiation of the eikonal phase, a result which was anticipated in the work of Mogull, Plefka, and Steinhoff [2010.02865 [hep-th]].
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spellingShingle Worldline Proof of Eikonal Exponentiation
Du, Yuchen
Ajith, Siddarth
Rajagopal, Ravisankar
Vaman, Diana
High Energy Physics - Theory
In this paper, working in the eikonal approximation, we present a proof for the exponentiation of the 2-body eikonal phase to {\it all orders in the eikonal expansion}, for scalar particles interacting electromagnetically or gravitationally. The proof is based on the worldline formalism, which is an alternative, first quantized method to the standard QFT calculation of the scattering amplitude. We show that in the worldline formalism the 2-body scattering amplitude written in impact parameter space naturally factorizes at each loop order. This factorization is responsible for the exponentiation of the eikonal phase, a result which was anticipated in the work of Mogull, Plefka, and Steinhoff [2010.02865 [hep-th]].
title Worldline Proof of Eikonal Exponentiation
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12895