Quantum corrections to Newton's law

by B.F.L. WARD (University of Tennessee)

Thursday 23 Jan 2003, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

We present a new approach to quantum gravity starting from Feynman's formulation for the simplest example, that of a scalar field as the representative matter. We show that we extend his treatment to a calculable framework using resummation techniques already well-tested in other problems. We show that our approach leads to finite quantum corrections to all orders in the loop expansion. Phenomenological consequences for Newton's law are described.