New infra-red enhancements in 4-derivative gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-11-14 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
4-derivative gravity provides a renormalizable theory of quantum gravity at the price of introducing a physical ghost, which could admit a sensible positive-energy quantization. To understand its physics, we compute ghost-mediated scatterings among matter particles at tree-level, finding a new power-like infra-red enhancement typical of 4-derivative theories, that we dub ''. Super-Planckian scatterings get downgraded to Planckian by radiating hard gravitons and ghosts, which are weakly coupled and carry away the energy.
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@article{arxiv.1808.07883,
title = {New infra-red enhancements in 4-derivative gravity},
author = {Alberto Salvio and Alessandro Strumia and Hardi Veermae},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07883},
year = {2018}
}
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20 pages, 3 figures