TY - JOUR
T1 - Scattering of strings from D-branes
AU - Hashimoto, Akikazu
AU - Klebanov, Igor R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to S. Gubser, J. Maldacena and L. Thorlacius for collaborations on the material presented here. This work was supported in part by the DOE grant DE-FG02-91ER40671, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award PHY-9157482, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation grant No. 91-48.
PY - 1997/5
Y1 - 1997/5
N2 - We review a number of perturbative calculations describing the interactions of D-branes with massless elementary string states. The form factors for the scattering of closed strings off D-branes are closely related to the Veneziano amplitude. They show that, in interactions with strings, D-branes acquire many of their physical features: the effective size of D-branes is of order the string scale and expands with the energy of the probe, while the fixed angle scattering amplitudes fall off exponentially. We also calculate the leading process responsible for the absorption of closed strings: the amplitude for a closed string to turn into a pair of open strings attached to the D-brane. The inverse of this process describes the Hawking radiation by an excited D-brane.
AB - We review a number of perturbative calculations describing the interactions of D-branes with massless elementary string states. The form factors for the scattering of closed strings off D-branes are closely related to the Veneziano amplitude. They show that, in interactions with strings, D-branes acquire many of their physical features: the effective size of D-branes is of order the string scale and expands with the energy of the probe, while the fixed angle scattering amplitudes fall off exponentially. We also calculate the leading process responsible for the absorption of closed strings: the amplitude for a closed string to turn into a pair of open strings attached to the D-brane. The inverse of this process describes the Hawking radiation by an excited D-brane.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00074-1
DO - 10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00074-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031142043
VL - 55
SP - 118
EP - 133
JO - Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
JF - Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
SN - 2405-6014
IS - 2
ER -