Light-like Scattering in Quantum Gravity

N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr; John F. Donoghue; B. Holstein; Ludovic Arnold; Ludovic Planté; Pierre Vanhove

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2016)117

Light-like Scattering in Quantum Gravity

N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr, John F. Donoghue, B. Holstein, Ludovic Arnold, Ludovic Planté, Pierre Vanhove

Theoretical high energy, astroparticle and gravitational physics

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We consider scattering in quantum gravity and derive long-range classical and quantum contributions to the scattering of light-like bosons and fermions (spin-0, spin-12, spin-1) from an external massive scalar field, such as the Sun or a black hole. This is achieved by treating general relativity as an effective field theory and identifying the non-analytic pieces of the one-loop gravitational scattering amplitude. It is emphasized throughout the paper how modern amplitude techniques, involving spinor-helicity variables, unitarity, and squaring relations in gravity enable much simplified computations. We directly verify, as predicted by general relativity, that all classical effects in our computation are universal (in the context of matter type and statistics). Using an eikonal procedure we confirm the post-Newtonian general relativity correction for light-like bending around large stellar objects. We also comment on treating effects from quantum ℏ dependent terms using the same eikonal method.

Original language	English
Article number	117
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2016
Issue number	1611
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2016)117
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2016

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