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One loop multiphoton helicity amplitudes

Gregory Mahlon*

  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P. O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510

  • *Electronic address: gdm@fnth010.fnal.gov

Phys. Rev. D 49, 2197 – Published 1 March, 1994

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2197

Abstract

We use the solutions to the recursion relations for double-off-shell fermion currents to compute helicity amplitudes for n-photon scattering and electron-positron annihilation to photons in the massless limit of QED. The form of these solutions is simple enough to allow all of the integrations to be performed explicitly. For n-photon scattering, we find that unless n=4 the amplitudes for the helicity configurations (+++...+) and (-++...+) vanish to one-loop order.

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