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Title: Tree-level unitarity constraints on the gravitational couplings of higher-spin massive fields

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003 (United States)
  2. Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (United States) Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

We analyze the high-energy behavior of tree-level graviton Compton amplitudes for particles of mass [ital m] and arbitrary spin, concentrating on a combination of forward amplitudes that will be unaffected by eventual cross couplings to other, higher spins. We first show that for any spin [gt]2, tree-level unitarity is already violated at energies [similar to] [radical][ital mM][sub Pl] , rather than at the Planck scale [ital M][sub Pl], even for [ital m][much lt][ital M][sub Pl]. We then restore unitarity to this amplitude up to [ital M][sub Pl] by adding nonminimal couplings that depend on the curvature and its derivatives, and modify the minimal description, including particle gravitational quadrupole moments, at [similar to][ital m][sup [minus]1] scales.

OSTI ID:
6588940
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 51:8; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English