Universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle
Abstract
We find a model-independent upper bound on the strong coupling scale for a massive spin-2 particle coupled to Einstein gravity. Our approach is to directly construct tree-level scattering amplitudes for these degrees of freedom and use them to find the maximum scale of perturbative unitarity violation. The highest scale is Λ3 = (m2MP)1/3, which is saturated by ghost-free bigravity. The strong coupling scale can be further raised to MP if the kinetic term for one particle has the wrong sign, which uniquely gives the amplitudes of quadratic curvature gravity. We also discuss the generalization to massive higher-spin particles coupled to gravity.
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- Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
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- 1477565
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- OSTI ID: 1613134
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- SC0019143
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 98 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; Effective field theory
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Bonifacio, James, and Hinterbichler, Kurt. Universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.085006.
Bonifacio, James, & Hinterbichler, Kurt. Universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.085006
Bonifacio, James, and Hinterbichler, Kurt. Mon .
"Universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.085006.
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title = {Universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle},
author = {Bonifacio, James and Hinterbichler, Kurt},
abstractNote = {We find a model-independent upper bound on the strong coupling scale for a massive spin-2 particle coupled to Einstein gravity. Our approach is to directly construct tree-level scattering amplitudes for these degrees of freedom and use them to find the maximum scale of perturbative unitarity violation. The highest scale is Λ3 = (m2MP)1/3, which is saturated by ghost-free bigravity. The strong coupling scale can be further raised to MP if the kinetic term for one particle has the wrong sign, which uniquely gives the amplitudes of quadratic curvature gravity. We also discuss the generalization to massive higher-spin particles coupled to gravity.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.98.085006},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 8,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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