High energy string-brane scattering for massive states
High Energy Physics - Theory
2012-03-14 v2
Abstract
String-brane interactions provide an ideal framework to study the dynamics of the massive states of the string spectrum in a non-trivial background. We present here an analysis of tree-level amplitudes for processes in which an NS-NS string state from the leading Regge trajectory scatters from a D-brane into another state from the leading Regge trajectory, in general of a different mass, at high energies and small scattering angles. This is done by using world-sheet OPE methods and effective vertex operators. We find that this class of processes has a universal dependence on the energy of the projectile and that the tree-level amplitudes are in agreement with the eikonal operator form of the string S-matrix.
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@article{arxiv.1107.4321,
title = {High energy string-brane scattering for massive states},
author = {William Black and Cristina Monni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4321},
year = {2012}
}
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28 pages, 2 figures