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We present the first numerical relativity simulations of the gravitational scattering of two neutron stars. Constraint-satisfying initial data for two equal-mass nonspinning sequences are constructed at fixed energy and various initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Joan Fontbuté , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Piero Rettegno , Simone Albanesi , Wolfgang Tichy

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the modern amplitudes program such as generalized unitarity and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Zvi Bern , Clifford Cheung , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

Two-body scatterings under the potential of a massive object are very common in astrophysics. If the massive body is far enough away that the two small bodies are in their own gravitational sphere of influence, the gravity of the massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Yihan Wang , Saavik Ford , Rosalba Perna , Barry McKernan , Zhaohuan Zhu , Bing Zhang

In this paper the problem of high-energy hadron-hadron (dipole-dipole) scattering is approached (for the first time) from the point of view of lattice QCD, by means of Monte Carlo numerical simulations. In the first part, we give a brief…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-05-12 M. Giordano , E. Meggiolaro

We describe the computation of post-Minkowskian Hamiltonians in General Relativity from scattering amplitudes. Using a relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation, we relate perturbative amplitudes of massive scalars coupled to gravity to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Andrea Cristofoli , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Pierre Vanhove

The aim of this note is to describe the computation of post-Minkwoskian Hamiltonians in modified theories of gravity. Exploiting a recent relation between amplitudes of massive scalars and Hamiltonians for relativistic point-particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrea Cristofoli

The frequency-domain waveform emitted by a two-body scattering process is computed in the extreme-mass-ratio limit through the fifth post-Minkowskian (PM) order (i.e., $O(G^5)$) and the fractional sixth post-Newtonian (PN) order. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Andrea Geralico

Upcoming observational runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the ground and in space, require waveform models more accurate than currently available. High-precision waveform models can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-24 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

Working within the post-Minkowskian approach to General Relativity, we prove that the radiation-reaction to the emission of gravitational waves during the large-impact-parameter scattering of two (classical) point masses modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Thibault Damour

We compute the (center-of-mass frame) scattering angle $\chi$ of hyperboliclike encounters of two spinning black holes, at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation level for orbital effects, and at the next-to-next-to-leading order for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

In this paper we study the two-body gravitational scattering of massive scalars with different masses in general spacetime dimensions. We focus on the Regge limit (eikonal regime) of the resulting scattering amplitudes and discuss how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Arnau Koemans Collado , Paolo Di Vecchia , Rodolfo Russo

Building on the relativistic Hamiltonian of Sonnleitner and Barnett arXiv:1806.00234 and its post-Newtonian extensions by Schwartz and Giuilini arXiv:1908.06929, we investigate composite atomic systems in dynamical gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Linda M. van Manen , André Grossardt

We demonstrate equivalences, under simple mappings, between the dynamics of three distinct systems---(i) an arbitrary-mass-ratio two-spinning-black-hole system, (ii) a spinning test black hole in a background Kerr spacetime, and (iii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Justin Vines

We present the result of the spin-orbit interaction Hamiltonian for binary systems of rotating compact objects with generic spins, up to NNNLO corrections within the post-Newtonian expansion. The calculation is performed by employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-18 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Raj Patil , Jan Steinhoff

We introduce a -- somewhat holographic -- dictionary between gravitational observables for scattering processes (measured at the "boundary") and adiabatic invariants for bound orbits (in the "bulk"), to all orders in the Post-Minkowskian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Gregor Kälin , Rafael A. Porto

The need for more and more accurate gravitational wave templates requires taking into account all possible contributions to the emission of gravitational radiation from a binary system. Therefore, working within a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

The post-Minkowskian approach to gravitationally interacting binary systems ({\it i.e.}, perturbation theory in $G$, without assuming small velocities) is extended to the computation of the dynamical effects induced by the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We compute to high post-Newtonian accuracy the 4-momentum (linear momentum, and energy), radiated as gravitational waves in a two-body system undergoing gravitational scattering. We include, for the first time, all the relevant {\it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

Recently, the gravitational scattering of two black holes (BHs) treated at the leading order in the weak-field, or post-Minkowskian (PM), approximation to General Relativity has been shown to map bijectively onto a simpler effectively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-11 Justin Vines , Jan Steinhoff , Alessandra Buonanno

The study of scattering encounters continues to provide new insights into the general relativistic two-body problem. The local-in-time conservative dynamics of an aligned-spin binary, for both unbound and bound orbits, is fully encoded in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines