On higher-derivative effects on the gravitational potential and particle bending

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)010zbMATH Open1434.83033arXiv1905.05657WikidataQ126457273 ScholiaQ126457273MaRDI QIDQ2185243FDOQ2185243

Gabriele Travaglini, Andreas Brandhuber

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using modern amplitude techniques we compute the leading classical and quantum corrections to the classical gravitational potential between two massive scalars induced by adding an $R^3$ term to Einstein gravity. We then study the scattering of massless scalars, photons and gravitons off a heavy scalar in the presence of the same $R^3$ deformation, and determine the bending angle in the three cases from the non-analytic component of the scattering amplitude. Similarly to the Einstein-Hilbert case, we find that the classical contribution to the bending angle is universal, but unlike that case, universality is preserved also by the first quantum correction. Finally we extend our analysis to include a deformation of the form $Phi{R}^2$, where $Phi$ is the dilaton, which arises in the low-energy effective action of the bosonic string in addition to the $R^3$ term, and compute its effect on the graviton bending.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05657

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zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesmodels of quantum gravityscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

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