Gravitational Bremsstrahlung in the Post-Minkowskian Effective Field 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 . 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 , we compute the total four-momentum radiated into gravitational waves at leading-order in and up to an order , 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