Geodesic analysis, absorption and scattering in the static Hayward spacetime

Abstract: We investigate the propagation of massless particles and scalar fields in the background of Hayward regular black holes. We compute the absorption and scattering cross sections and compare our numerical results with some analytical approximations, showing that they are in excellent agreement. We show that some of the absorption and scattering results of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes can be mimicked by Hayward regular black holes, for appropriate choices of the charge of the two different black holes.