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We extend previous techniques for calculations of transplanckian-energy string-string collisions to the high-energy scattering of massless closed strings from a stack of N Dp-branes in Minkowski spacetime. We show that an effective non-trivial metric emerges from the string scattering amplitudes by comparing them against the semiclassical dynamics of high-energy strings in the extremal p-brane background. By changing the energy, impact parameter and effective open string coupling λ = gN, we are able to explore various interesting regimes and to reproduce classical expectations, including tidal-force excitations, even beyond the leading-eikonal approximation
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D’Appollonio, G., Di Vecchia, P., Russo, R. et al. High-energy string-brane scattering: leading eikonal and beyond. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 100 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2010)100
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