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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 274, 2022
XVth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum Conference (ConfXV)
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Article Number | 08011 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | 8 - Parallel Track G | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227408011 | |
Published online | 22 December 2022 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227408011
Unitarizing infinite-range forces: Graviton-graviton scattering, the graviball, and Coulomb scattering
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Murcia, 30071 Murcia, Spain
* e-mail: oller@um.es
Published online: 22 December 2022
We study graviton-graviton scattering in partial-wave amplitudes after unitarizing their Born terms. In order to apply S -matrix techniques, based on unitarity and analyticity, we introduce an S -matrix associated to this resummation that is free of infrared divergences. This is achieved by removing the diverging phase factor calculated by Weinberg that multiplies the S matrix, and that stems from the virtual infrared gravitons. A scalar graviton-graviton resonance with vacuum quantum numbers is obtained as a pole in the nonperturbative S -wave amplitude, which is called the graviball. Its resonant effects along the physical real s-axis may peak at values substantially lower than the UV cutoff squared of the theory, similarly to the σ resonance in QCD. These techniques are also applied to study nonrelativistic Coulomb scattering up to next-to-leading order in the unitarization program. A comparison with the exact known solution is very illuminating.
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