QCD and QED corrections to light-by-light scattering

2001/09/10 by Z. Bern, Zvi Bern, Abilio De Freitas +6 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Fermion #Limit (mathematics) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/031

published as JHEP 0111:031,2001 · 17 pages, 3 figure files, JHEP style

arxiv created 2001/09/10 · openalex publication_date 2001/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present the QCD and QED corrections to the fermion-loop contributions to light-by-light scattering, gamma gamma to gamma gamma, in the ultrarelativistic limit where the kinematic invariants are much larger than the masses of the charged fermions.

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