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Extracting Einstein from the Loop-Level Double-Copy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-12-01 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The naive double-copy of (multi) loop amplitudes involving massive matter coupled to gauge theories will generically produce amplitudes in a gravitational theory that contains additional contributions from propagating antisymmetric tensor and dilaton states even at tree-level. We present a graph-based approach that combines the method of maximal cuts with double-copy construction to offer a systematic framework to isolate the pure Einstein-Hilbert gravitational contributions through loop level. Indeed this allows for a bootstrap of pure-gravitational results from the double-copy of massive scalar-QCD. We apply this to construct the novel result of the D-dimensional one-loop five-point QFT integrand relevant in the classical limit to generating observables associated with the radiative effects of massive black-hole scattering via pure Einstein-Hilbert gravity.

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@article{arxiv.2108.06798,
  title  = {Extracting Einstein from the Loop-Level Double-Copy},
  author = {John Joseph M. Carrasco and Ingrid A. Vazquez-Holm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06798},
  year   = {2021}
}

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33 pages, 9 figures