The paper derives master formulas for s-channel discontinuities of four-point one-loop worldline integrals and uses them to evaluate a phi^3 amplitude and a scalar QED integral up to rational terms.
Low-energy limit of N-photon amplitudes in a constant field
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While the QED photon amplitudes at full momentum so far have been calculated only up to the six-photon level, in the low-energy limit there are explicit formulas for all helicity components even at the N-photon level, obtained by Martin et al. in 2002. Here we use the worldline formalism to extend that result to the N-photon amplitudes in a generic constant field. For both scalar and spinor QED, we obtain compact representations for the low-energy limits of these amplitudes involving only simple algebra and a single global proper-time integral with trigonometric integrand.
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Discontinuity Method for Evaluating Scattering Amplitudes within the Worldline Formalism
The paper derives master formulas for s-channel discontinuities of four-point one-loop worldline integrals and uses them to evaluate a phi^3 amplitude and a scalar QED integral up to rational terms.