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We study eikonal scattering in the context of Kaluza-Klein theory by considering a massless scalar field coupled to Einstein’s gravity in 5D compactified to 4D on a manifold M4 × S1. We also examine various different kinematic limits of the resulting eikonal. In the ultra-relativistic scattering case we find correspondence with the time delay calculated for a massless particle moving in a compactified version of the Aichelburg-Sexl shock-wave geometry. In the case of a massless Kaluza-Klein scalar scattering off a heavy Kaluza-Klein mode a similar calculation yields the deflection angle of a massless particle in the geometry of an extremal, Q = 2M , Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton 4D black hole. We also discuss a related case in the scattering of dilatons off a large stack of D0-branes or D6-branes in dimensionally reduced D = 10 type IIA string theory.
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Collado, A.K., Thomas, S. Eikonal scattering in Kaluza-Klein gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 171 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2019)171
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