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Scattering of Macroscopic Heterotic Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We show that macroscopic heterotic strings, formulated as strings which wind around a compact direction of finite but macroscopic extent, exhibit non-trivial scattering at low energies. This occurs at order velocity squared and may thus be described as geodesic motion on a moduli space with a non-trivial metric which we construct. Our result is in agreement with a direct calculation of the string scattering amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9305066,
  title  = {Scattering of Macroscopic Heterotic Strings},
  author = {J. P. Gauntlett and J. A. Harvey and M. M. Robinson and D. Waldram},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9305066},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pp (harvmac l)

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