High-energy Massive String Scatterings from Orientifold Planes

TL;DR

This paper investigates high-energy scattering of massive closed strings from orientifold planes, revealing linear relations among amplitudes, pole structures, and differences between O-particle and O-domain-wall interactions.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of high-energy massive string scatterings from orientifold planes, uncovering linear amplitude relations and pole structure distinctions.

Findings

Linear relations among high-energy scattering amplitudes of different string states.

O-particle amplitudes exhibit only closed string Regge poles.

O-domain-wall scatterings show field theory-like UV behavior with finite t-channel poles.

Abstract

We calculate bosonic massive closed string states at arbitrary mass levels scattered from Orientifold planes in the high-energy, fixed angle limit. For the case of O-particle scatterings, we obtain infinite linear relations among high-energy scattering amplitudes of different string states. We also confirm that there exist only closed string Regge poles in the form factor of the O-particle amplitudes as expected. For the case of O-domain-wall scatterings, we find that, like the well-known D-instanton scatterings, the amplitudes behave like field theory scatterings, namely UV power-law without infinite Regge poles. In addition, we discover that there exist only finite number of t-channel closed string poles in the form factor of O-domain-wall scatterings, and the masses of the poles are bounded by the masses of the external legs. We thus confirm that all massive closed string states do couple to the O-domain-wall.