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Observables from the Spinning Eikonal

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-20 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the classical dynamics of spinning particles using scattering amplitudes and eikonal exponentiation. We show that observables are determined by a simple algorithm. A wealth of complexity arises in perturbation theory as positions, momenta and spins must be iteratively corrected at each order. Even though we restrict ourselves to one-loop computations at quadratic order in spin, nevertheless we encounter and resolve a number of subtle effects. Finally, we clarify the links between our work and various other eikonal approaches to spinning observables.

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@article{arxiv.2312.09960,
  title  = {Observables from the Spinning Eikonal},
  author = {Andres Luna and Nathan Moynihan and Donal O'Connell and Alasdair Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09960},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

27 pages plus references, v2 matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:52:40.232Z