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Infrared Behaviour of Massive Scalar Matter coupled to Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

In the framework of causal perturbation theory we consider a massive scalar field coupled to gravity. In the field theoretic approach to quantum gravity (QG) we start with a massless second rank tensor field. This tensor field is then quantized in a covariant way in Minkowski space. This article deals with the adiabatic limit for graviton radiative corrections in a scattering process of two massive scalar particles. We compute the differential cross-section for bremsstrahlung processes in which one of the outgoing particles emites a graviton of low energy, a so called soft graviton. Since the emited graviton will not be detected we have to integrate over all soft gravitons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0101156,
  title  = {Infrared Behaviour of Massive Scalar Matter coupled to Gravity},
  author = {M. Wellmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0101156},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, some mistakes corrected