Published October 11, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Quantum gravitational corrections for spinning particles

  • 1. Department of Mathematics, University of York,Heslington, York, YO10 5DD (United Kingdom)

Description

We calculate the quantum corrections to the gauge-invariant gravitational potentials of spinning particles in flat space, induced by loops of both massive and massless matter fields of various types. While the corrections to the Newtonian potential induced by massless conformal matter for spinless particles are well known, and the same corrections due to massless minimally coupled scalars http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/24/245008, massless non-conformal scalars http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.104027 and massive scalars, fermions and vector bosons http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.064047 have been recently derived, spinning particles receive additional corrections which are the subject of the present work. We give both fully analytic results valid for all distances from the particle, and present numerical results as well as asymptotic expansions. At large distances from the particle, the corrections due to massive fields are exponentially suppressed in comparison to the corrections from massless fields, as one would expect. However, a surprising result of our analysis is that close to the particle itself, on distances comparable to the Compton wavelength of the massive fields running in the loops, these corrections can be enhanced with respect to the massless case.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2016)051; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/17511

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2016
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 51
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
48056546
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; COMPTON WAVELENGTH; CORRECTIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SCALAR MESONS
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MESONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP10(2016)051; ARXIV:1607.03129; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:17511
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)