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1 | (14) |
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1.1 Effective Theory of Gravity |
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3 | (3) |
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6 | (9) |
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1.2.1 Unitarity of a Superposition of States |
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8 | (1) |
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1.2.2 Example: Unitarity of WW Scattering |
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9 | (3) |
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12 | (3) |
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2 Unitarity of Gravity Coupled to Models of Particle Physics |
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15 | (10) |
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2.1 Unitarity of Linearised General Relativity |
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15 | (2) |
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2.1.1 j = 2 Partial Wave Amplitude |
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16 | (1) |
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2.1.2 j = 0 Partial Wave Amplitude |
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17 | (1) |
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2.2 Unitarity of Models of Particle Physics |
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17 | (1) |
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2.3 Running of the Planck Mass and Renormalisation Group Improved Unitarity Bound |
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18 | (7) |
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2.3.1 Model with Large Number of Fields |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (2) |
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3 Unitarity of Models with Extra Dimensions |
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25 | (40) |
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3.1 Extra Dimensions and Kaluza-Klein Modes |
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25 | (7) |
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3.1.1 Extra Dimensional Models as Effective Theories with a Low Cutoff |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (4) |
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3.1.3 Partial Wave Amplitude for KK Graviton Exchange |
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31 | (1) |
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3.1.4 Width of KK Gravitons |
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32 | (1) |
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3.2 Unitarity of KK Graviton Resonances |
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32 | (4) |
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3.2.1 Sum of Breit-Wigner Resonances |
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32 | (2) |
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3.2.2 Beyond the Breit-Wigner Approximation |
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34 | (2) |
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3.3 Unitarity in the ADD Model |
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36 | (10) |
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3.3.1 Introduction to the ADD Model |
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36 | (2) |
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3.3.2 Unitarity in the ADD Model |
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38 | (1) |
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3.3.3 KK Sum and Unitarity in the Zero Width Approximation |
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39 | (3) |
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3.3.4 KK Sum and Unitarity Including Breit-Wigner Width |
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42 | (2) |
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3.3.5 Summary of the Unitarity Bounds |
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44 | (2) |
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3.4 Unitarity in the Randall-Sundrum Model |
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46 | (6) |
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3.4.1 Introduction to the Randall-Sundrum Model |
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46 | (3) |
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3.4.2 Unitarity from Graviton Exchange |
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49 | (1) |
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3.4.3 The Radion and Unitarity |
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50 | (2) |
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3.5 Unitarity in the Linear Dilaton Model |
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52 | (13) |
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3.5.1 Introduction to the Linear Dilaton Model |
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52 | (2) |
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3.5.2 Unitarity from Graviton Exchange |
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54 | (1) |
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3.5.3 The Radion and Dilaton Modes and the Associated Unitarity Bounds |
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55 | (4) |
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3.5.4 Higgs-Radion Mixing and the Associated Unitarity Bounds |
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59 | (3) |
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62 | (3) |
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4.1 Inflation and the Higgs Boson as the Inflaton |
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65 | (4) |
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4.2 Unitarity of Higgs inflation |
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69 | (4) |
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70 | (1) |
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4.2.2 Background Dependence |
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71 | (1) |
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4.2.3 Unitarising Higgs Inflation |
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72 | (1) |
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4.3 Asymptotic Safety and Higgs Inflation |
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73 | (1) |
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4.4 Unitarity of New Higgs Inflation |
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74 | (5) |
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76 | (3) |
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5 Bound on the Non-minimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity |
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79 | (6) |
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5.1 The Decoupling Effect |
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79 | (2) |
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5.2 Higgs Boson Production and Decay |
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81 | (1) |
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5.3 Effects of a Large Non-minimal Coupling on Missing Energy and the Higgs Mass |
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82 | (3) |
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5.3.1 Comment on a Recent Publication |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (6) |
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89 | (2) |
| Appendix A Polarisations of External Particles |
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91 | (2) |
| Appendix B Wigner d-Functions |
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93 | (2) |
| Appendix C Integrals |
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95 | (2) |
| Appendix D Transforming Between Einstein and Jordan Frames |
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97 | (2) |
| Appendix E Feynman Rules |
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