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soft photons that are emitted from one of the external lines and absorbed in another (or in the same line). The two factors cancel each other, leaving a finite correction which depends on the sensitivity with which photons can be detected in the experiment.
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process, and they are not energetic enough to be detected. Such photons can be emitted from (or absorbed by) the external (incoming and outgoing) lines of charged particles of the
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for the process. Even though soft photons are not detected, the possibility of their emission must be taken into account in the calculation of the
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Taking the soft photons into account multiplies the rate of a given process by a factor which approaches zero. However, there is also an
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simplifies the calculation of the contribution of soft photons to the scattering of particles.
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much smaller than the energies of the particles participating in a particular
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particle physics
photons
photon energies
scattering
Feynman diagram
scattering amplitude
infrared-divergent
virtual
Steven Weinberg
soft photon theorem


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