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Main Authors: Jia, Yu, Pan, Jichen, Zhang, Jia-Yue
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19581
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author Jia, Yu
Pan, Jichen
Zhang, Jia-Yue
author_facet Jia, Yu
Pan, Jichen
Zhang, Jia-Yue
contents We investigate the soft behavior of the tree-level Rutherford scattering processes mediated via $t$-channel one-graviton exchange. We consider two types of Rutherford scattering processes, {\it e.g.}, a low-energy massless structureless projectile (up to spin-$1$) hits a static massive composite particle carrying various spins (up to spin-$2$), and a slowly-moving light projectile hits a heavy static composite target. The unpolarized cross sections in the first type are found to exhibit universal forms at the first two orders in $1/M$ expansion, yet differ at the next-to-next-to-leading order, though some terms at this order still remain universal or depend on the target spin in a definite manner. The unpolarized cross sections in the second type are universal at the lowest order in projectile velocity expansion and through all orders in $1/M$, independent of the spins of both projectile and target. The universality partially breaks down at relative order-$v^2/M^2$, albeit some terms at this order still depend on the target spin in a specific manner.
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spellingShingle Soft pattern of gravitational Rutherford scattering from heavy target mass expansion
Jia, Yu
Pan, Jichen
Zhang, Jia-Yue
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We investigate the soft behavior of the tree-level Rutherford scattering processes mediated via $t$-channel one-graviton exchange. We consider two types of Rutherford scattering processes, {\it e.g.}, a low-energy massless structureless projectile (up to spin-$1$) hits a static massive composite particle carrying various spins (up to spin-$2$), and a slowly-moving light projectile hits a heavy static composite target. The unpolarized cross sections in the first type are found to exhibit universal forms at the first two orders in $1/M$ expansion, yet differ at the next-to-next-to-leading order, though some terms at this order still remain universal or depend on the target spin in a definite manner. The unpolarized cross sections in the second type are universal at the lowest order in projectile velocity expansion and through all orders in $1/M$, independent of the spins of both projectile and target. The universality partially breaks down at relative order-$v^2/M^2$, albeit some terms at this order still depend on the target spin in a specific manner.
title Soft pattern of gravitational Rutherford scattering from heavy target mass expansion
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19581