English

Quadratic-in-Spin Hamiltonian at $\mathcal{O}(G^2)$ from Scattering Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-07-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We obtain the quadratic-in-spin terms of the conservative Hamiltonian describing the interactions of a binary of spinning bodies in General Relativity through O(G2)\mathcal{O}(G^2) and to all orders in velocity. Our calculation extends a recently-introduced framework based on scattering amplitudes and effective field theory to consider non-minimal coupling of the spinning objects to gravity. At the order that we consider, we establish the validity of the formula proposed in \cite{Bern:2020buy} that relates the impulse and spin kick in a scattering event to the eikonal phase.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2102.10137,
  title  = {Quadratic-in-Spin Hamiltonian at $\mathcal{O}(G^2)$ from Scattering Amplitudes},
  author = {Dimitrios Kosmopoulos and Andres Luna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10137},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21 pages + references, 5 figures, 1 ancillary file