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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

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