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Gravitational Bremsstrahlung in the Post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-07-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the gravitational radiation emitted during the scattering of two spinless bodies in the post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory approach. We derive the conserved stress-energy tensor linearly coupled to gravity and the classical probability amplitude of graviton emission at leading and next-to-leading order in the Newton's constant GG. The amplitude can be expressed in compact form as one-dimensional integrals over a Feynman parameter involving Bessel functions. We use it to recover the leading-order radiated angular momentum expression. Upon expanding it in the relative velocity between the two bodies vv, we compute the total four-momentum radiated into gravitational waves at leading-order in GG and up to an order v8v^8, finding agreement with what was recently computed using scattering amplitude methods. Our results also allow us to investigate the zero frequency limit of the emitted energy spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2102.08339,
  title  = {Gravitational Bremsstrahlung in the Post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory},
  author = {Stavros Mougiakakos and Massimiliano Maria Riva and Filippo Vernizzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08339},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure