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Soft gravitational radiation from multi-body collisions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-11-29 v2

Abstract

We derive a universal expression for the gravitational radiation energy spectrum dEGW/dωdE^{GW}/d\omega at sub-leading order emitted from a generic gravitational hard scattering of multi-particles or multi-bodies. Our result includes all O(ω)\mathcal{O}(\omega) corrections to the gravitational radiation flux from a generic 2N2\rightarrow N collision, in both the cases of massless and massive particles/bodies. We also show the dependence of the radiation energy fluxby the quantum spin in case of particle collisions. Then, we consider the specific case of a gravitational elastic scattering of two massive bodies, i.e. m+Mm+Mm+M\rightarrow m+M with m,Mm,M the masses of the two bodies respectively. We demonstrate that in this case all O(ω)\mathcal{O}(\omega) contributions to the energy flux exactly cancel each others. Nevertheless, we also show that, for a 222\rightarrow 2 inelastic scattering, the inclusion of sub-leading soft gravitons leads to a not zero radiation flux, having a simple expression in certain asymptotic regimes. Our results can be applied to the case of Black Holes' collisions with possible testable implications in gravitational waves physics.

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@article{arxiv.2110.01194,
  title  = {Soft gravitational radiation from multi-body collisions},
  author = {Andrea Addazi and Kaiqiang Alan Zeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01194},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages, 2 figures

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