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String-theoretic unitary S-matrix at the threshold of black-hole production

Gabriele Veneziano1,2

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Previous results on trans-planckian collisions in superstring theory are rewritten in terms of an explicitly unitary S-matrix whose range of validity covers a large region of the energy impact-parameter plane. Amusingly, as part of this region's border is approached, properties of the final state start resembling those expected from the evaporation of a black hole even well below its production threshold. More specifically, we conjecture that, in an energy window extending up to such a threshold, inclusive cross sections satisfy a peculiar ``antiscaling" behaviour, seemingly preparing for a smooth transition to black-hole physics.


Keywords

Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Black Holes

Models of Quantum Gravity

Black Holes in String Theory

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0410166

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PACS

04.70.Dy Quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics

11.25.-w Strings and branes

11.55.-m S-matrix theory; analytic structure of amplitudes

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2004)

Received 28 October 2004, accepted for publication 1 November 2004

Published 26 November 2004



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