Graviton-photon production with a massive spin-2 particle

Abstract

A recent letter Cai et al. [2107.14548] within a phenomenological dark matter framework with a massive graviton in the external state indicated a divergence with increasing centre-of-momentum energy arising from the longitudinal polarizations of the graviton. In this letter we point out that in processes such as graviton-photon production from matter annihilation, $f\bar{f}\to G\gamma$, no such anomalous divergences occur at tree-level. This then applies to other tree-level amplitudes related by crossing symmetry such as $\gamma f\to Gf$, $Gf\to \gamma f$, $\gamma f\to Gf$, $f\to fG\gamma$ and so on. We show this by explicitly computing the relevant tree-level diagrams, where we find that delicate cancellations ensure that all anomalously growing terms are well-regulated. Effectively at tree-level this is consistent with the operation of a Ward identity associated with the external photon for such amplitudes. The same tree-level results apply if the photon is replaced by a gluon. These results are important for cosmological models of dark matter within the framework of extra dimensions.

arXiv comment4 +5 pages, 1 figure. The article is now updated to match the published version

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