Graviton reggeization and high energy gravitational scattering of scalar particles

TL;DR

This paper investigates high energy scalar particle scattering via gravity, focusing on reggeized gravitons within Einstein-Hilbert gravity, and computes scattering amplitudes and impact factors using Lipatov's effective action.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for analyzing high energy gravitational scattering of scalars with reggeized gravitons using Lipatov's effective action in Einstein-Hilbert gravity.

Findings

Derived the trajectory of the t-channel amplitude.

Calculated the leading order scattering amplitude.

Computed the impact factor for scalar-reggeized graviton interaction.

Abstract

In this paper we consider a high energy scattering of free scalar particles through a gravitational field. The one particle t-channel amplitude of the scattering in this limit is governed by reggeized graviton. Therefore, we discuss an appearance of the reggeized gravitons in the framework of Einstein-Hilbert gravity and consider Lipatov's effective action for the reggeized gravitons. We calculate the trajectory of the corresponding $t$-channel amplitude in the framework and thereafter define the leading order amplitude of scattering of two massive scalar particles. An impact factor of the interaction of scalar particle with the reggeized gravitons is also calculated and possible applications of the approach are discussed as well.