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QCD-Gravity double-copy in the Regge regime: shock wave propagators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In recent work, we demonstrated a double-copy relation between inclusive gluon radiation in shock wave collisions of ultrarelativistic nuclei and inclusive graviton radiation in trans-Planckian gravitational shock wave collisions. We compute here the corresponding gravitational shock wave propagators in general relativity and demonstrate that they too obey a double copy relation to gluon shock wave propagators computed previously. These results provide key input in a renormalization group approach towards computing the high frequency radiation spectrum in close black hole encounters.

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@article{arxiv.2406.10483,
  title  = {QCD-Gravity double-copy in the Regge regime: shock wave propagators},
  author = {Himanshu Raj and Raju Venugopalan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.10483},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 pages, revised version to appear in Physical Review D