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Exponentiation of the leading eikonal with spin

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-19 v1

Abstract

We initiate a study into the eikonal exponentiation of the amplitude in impact-parameter space when spinning particles are involved in the scattering. Considering the gravitational scattering of two spin-1/2 particles, we demonstrate that the leading eikonal exhibits exponentiation up to O(G2)\mathcal{O}(G^{2}) in the limit where the spacetime dimension D4D\rightarrow4. We find this to hold for general spin orientations. The exponentiation of the leading eikonal including spin is understood through the unitarity properties at leading order in \hbar of momentum-space amplitudes, allowing the extension of our results to arbitrary-spin scattering.

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@article{arxiv.2109.04427,
  title  = {Exponentiation of the leading eikonal with spin},
  author = {Kays Haddad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04427},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages + appendices

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