Illuminating Light Bending

Emil Bjerrum-Bohr; B Holstein; John F. Donoghue; Ludovic Planté; P. Vanhove

doi:10.22323/1.292.0077

Illuminating Light Bending

Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, B Holstein, John F. Donoghue, Ludovic Planté, P. Vanhove

Niels Bohr International Academy

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The interactions of gravitons with spin-1 matter are calculated in parallel with the well known photon case. It is shown that graviton scattering amplitudes can be factorized into a product of familiar electromagnetic forms, and cross sections for various reactions are straightforwardly evaluated using helicity methods. Universality relations are identified. Extrapolation to zero mass yields scattering amplitudes for photon-graviton and graviton-graviton scattering. The phenomenon of light bending near a massive object, which is generally treated using classical general relativity, is discussed from alternative points of view.

Original language	English
Article number	077
Journal	P o S - Proceedings of Science
Volume	292
Number of pages	35
ISSN	1824-8039
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.292.0077
Publication status	Published - 2016

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