Constraints on a gravitational Higgs mechanism
Abstract
In this work, we show that it is impossible to improve the high-energy behavior of the tree-level four-point amplitude of a massive spin-2 particle by including the exchange of any number of scalars and vectors in four spacetime dimensions. This constrains possible weakly coupled ultraviolet extensions of massive gravity, ruling out gravitational analogues of the Higgs mechanism based on particles with spins less than two. Any tree-level ultraviolet extension that is Lorentz invariant and unitary must involve additional massive particles with spins greater than or equal to two, as in Kaluza-Klein theories and string theory.
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- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States); Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC); Simons Foundation; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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- 1570033
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- OSTI ID: 1802298
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- SC0019143; SC0011941; 658908; 555117; NNX16AB27G
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- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
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Bonifacio, James, Hinterbichler, Kurt, and Rosen, Rachel A. Constraints on a gravitational Higgs mechanism. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084017.
Bonifacio, James, Hinterbichler, Kurt, & Rosen, Rachel A. Constraints on a gravitational Higgs mechanism. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084017
Bonifacio, James, Hinterbichler, Kurt, and Rosen, Rachel A. Thu .
"Constraints on a gravitational Higgs mechanism". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084017.
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title = {Constraints on a gravitational Higgs mechanism},
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abstractNote = {In this work, we show that it is impossible to improve the high-energy behavior of the tree-level four-point amplitude of a massive spin-2 particle by including the exchange of any number of scalars and vectors in four spacetime dimensions. This constrains possible weakly coupled ultraviolet extensions of massive gravity, ruling out gravitational analogues of the Higgs mechanism based on particles with spins less than two. Any tree-level ultraviolet extension that is Lorentz invariant and unitary must involve additional massive particles with spins greater than or equal to two, as in Kaluza-Klein theories and string theory.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084017},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 8,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
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