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Gravitational corrections to the scattering of scalar particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-12-02 v1

Abstract

We evaluated the scattering amplitude of neutral scalar particles at one-loop order in the context of effective field theory of quantum gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant. Our study suggests that quantum gravitational corrections induce an asymptotic freedom behavior to the λϕ4\lambda\phi^4 theory, for a positive cosmological constant. This result hints that a complete theory of quantum gravity can play an important role to avoid the issue of triviality in quantum field theory.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1808,
  title  = {Gravitational corrections to the scattering of scalar particles},
  author = {A. C. Lehum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1808},
  year   = {2013}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures