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A non-relativistic potential-model version of the factorization assumption, used in perturbative QCD calculations of hadronic form factors, is used, along with the Born approximation valid at high energies, to derive a remarkably simple…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerald A. Miller , Mark Strikman

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the modern amplitudes program such as generalized unitarity and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Zvi Bern , Clifford Cheung , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We study the process, within classical general relativity, in which an incident gravitational plane wave, of weak amplitude and long wavelength, scatters off a massive spinning compact object, such as a black hole or neutron star. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 M. V. S. Saketh , Justin Vines

The scalar and electromagnetic fields of charges uniformly accelerated in de Sitter spacetime are constructed. They represent the generalization of the Born solutions describing fields of two particles with hyperbolic motion in flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jiri Bicak , Pavel Krtous

We consider quantum field theory in de Sitter space, focusing on the cases of scalars, spin 1/2 fields, and symmetric and anti-symmetric tensor fields of arbitrary spin. The free field equations in global coordinates can be reduced to a one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-16 Philip Lagogiannis , Alexander Maloney , Yi Wang

The dispersion relation of de Sitter special relativity is obtained in a simple and compact form, which is formally similar to the dispersion relation of ordinary special relativity. It is manifestly invariant under change of scale of mass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 J. P. Beltran Almeida , C. S. O. Mayor , J. G. Pereira

The aim of this work is to provided the details of a calculation summarized in the recent paper by Maltz and Susskind which conjectured a potentially rigorous framework where the status of de Sitter space is the same as that of a resonance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Jonathan Maltz

The asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles at high energies with fixed momentum transfers is studied. The study is done within the effective theory of quantum gravity based on quasi-potential equation. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Nguyen Suan Han , Do Thu Ha , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

The scattering of a charged scalar field on Coulomb potential on de Sitter space-time is studied using the solution of the free Klein-Gordon equation. We find that the scattering amplitude is independent of the choice of the picture and in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Crucean Cosmin , Racoceanu Radu , Pop Adrian

Scalar-tensor gravity is one of the most competitive gravity theory to Einstein's relativity. We reconstruct the exact de Sitter solution in scalar-tensor gravity, in which the non-minimal coupling scalar is rolling along the potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-04 Hongsheng Zhang , Xin-Zhou Li

We compute the one-loop quantum corrections to the gravitational potentials of a spinning point particle in a de Sitter background, due to the vacuum polarisation induced by conformal fields in an effective field theory approach. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Markus B. Fröb , Enric Verdaguer

In Fortsch. Phys. $\textbf{64}$, 176 (2016), Alvarez-Gaume et al established that pure $R^2$ theory propagates $\textit{massless}$ spin-2 graviton on a de Sitter (dS) background but $\textit{not}$ on a locally flat background. We build on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Hoang Ky Nguyen

We derive the effects of the scalar particle production on the physical graviton operator in the de Sitter space. Our analysis is done for the sub-horizon modes at large values of the conformal time. In this limit, we completely determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-21 Ion V. Vancea

Quantum theories of gravity are generally expected to have some degree of non-locality, with familiar local physics emerging only in a particular limit. Perturbative quantum gravity around backgrounds with isometries and compact Cauchy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Molly Kaplan , Donald Marolf , Xuyang Yu , Ying Zhao

Asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles by scalar, vector and tensor exchanges at high energy and fixed momentum transfers is reconsidered in quantum field theory. In the framework of the quasi-potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Nguyen Suan Han , Le Hai Yen , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

We consider the scattering of charged particles on particular electromagnetic fields which have properties analogous to gravitational horizons. Classically, particles become causally excluded from regions of spacetime beyond a null surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Anton Ilderton , William Lindved

One-dimensional quantum scattering from a local potential barrier is considered. Analytical properties of the scattering amplitudes have been investigated by means of the integral equations equivalent to the Schrodinger equations. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Marinov , Bilha Segev

Based on the classical limit of relativistic scattering amplitudes, we compute the coupling between a general super-renormalizable gravity and massive scalar particles. This allows us to derive the $D$-dimensional metric corrections at both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Haiyuan Feng , Rong-Jia Yang , Jinjun Zhang

We find that the amplitude of quantum fluctuations of the invariant de Sitter vacuum coincides exactly with that of the vacuum of a comoving observer for a massless scalar (inflaton) field. We propose redefining the actual physical power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Ivan Agullo , Jose Navarro-Salas , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Leonard Parker

Flat-space physics is highly constrained by basic principles such as Lorentz invariance, locality, unitarity and causality. This is neatly seen in the structure of scattering amplitudes. For processes occurring in an expanding background we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-31 Paolo Benincasa