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Nonlinear Single Compton Scattering

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The lowest order of the SF-QED perturbation series is described by Furry picture Feynman diagrams with only one vertex. The only possible scattering process with only an electron in the initial state is an electron with initial momentum \(p_i^{\mu }=\left( \varepsilon _i,\varvec{p}_i\right) \) emitting a single photon with wave vector \(k_1^{\mu }=\omega _1n_1\) and thereby changing its momentum to \(p^{\mu }_f=(\varepsilon _f,\varvec{p}_f)\). The corresponding Feynman diagram is shown in Fig. 3.1

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Mackenroth, K.F. (2014). Nonlinear Single Compton Scattering. In: Quantum Radiation in Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07740-6_3

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