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Using scattering amplitudes, we obtain the potential contributions to conservative binary dynamics in general relativity at fourth post-Minkowskian order, ${\cal O}(G^4)$. As in previous lower-order calculations, we harness powerful tools…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We present the conservative dynamics of compact binaries to third order in the post-Minkowskian approximation in a theory that extends general relativity by a massless scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Yuchen Du , Zhengwen Liu , Hongbin Wang

We derive the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries to third Post-Minkowskian order, using the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach introduced in [2006.01184] together with the Boundary-to-Bound dictionary developed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We combine tools from effective field theory and generalized unitarity to construct a map between on-shell scattering amplitudes and the classical potential for interacting spinless particles. For general relativity, we obtain analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-31 Clifford Cheung , Ira Z. Rothstein , Mikhail P. Solon

We compute the complete potential-graviton contributions to the conservative radial action and scattering angle for two non-spinning bodies in general relativity, accurate through fifth order in Newton's constant and including second-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Sid Smith , Mao Zeng

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

Amplitude methods have proven to be a promising technique to perform Post-Minkowskian calculations used as inputs to construct gravitational waveforms. In this paper, we show how these methods can be extended beyond the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Mariana Carrillo-González , Claudia de Rham , Andrew J. Tolley

In this work, we derive the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries in the massless scalar-tensor theories using the post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach. Our main result is an analytic expression of the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Laura Bernard , Tamanna Jain , Stavros Mougiakakos

We employ one-loop scattering amplitudes in Einstein-Maxwell theory to compute the classical Hamiltonian of a binary system of two charged, non-spinning compact objects. The Hamiltonian is valid to all orders in velocity and up to second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Allan Alonzo-Artiles , Manfred Kraus

We compute the scattering amplitude for classical black-hole scattering to third order in the Post-Minkowskian expansion, keeping all terms needed to derive the scattering angle to that order from the eikonal formalism. Our results confirm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-20 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , P. H. Damgaard , L. Planté , P. Vanhove

We complete the calculation of conservative two-body scattering dynamics at fourth post-Minkowskian order, i.e. $O(G^4)$ and all orders in velocity, including radiative contributions corresponding to the tail effect in general relativity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We present a general framework for calculating post-Minskowskian, classical, conservative Hamiltonians for $N$ non-spinning bodies in general relativity from relativistic scattering amplitudes. Novel features for $N>2$ are described…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Callum R. T. Jones , Mikhail Solon

We compute the classical one-loop gravitational Compton amplitude describing the scattering of a graviton off a massive spinning compact object at the second post-Minkowskian order, including terms through the quartic order in spin. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Dogan Akpinar

We compute the conservative and radiation-reaction contributions to classical observables in the gravitational scattering between a spinning and a spinless black hole to the fourth order in spin and third order in the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Dogan Akpinar , Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Alexander Smirnov , Mao Zeng

We extract the long-range gravitational potential between two scalar particles with arbitrary masses from the two-to-two elastic scattering amplitude at 2nd Post-Minkowskian order in arbitrary dimensions. In contrast to the four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Andrea Cristofoli , Poul H. Damgaard , Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg

We consider gravitational massive scalar-scalar scattering from unitarity and demonstrate how intermediate soft graviton behavior and the concept of extracting classical physics from localization of integrands on velocity cuts devise an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , L. Plante , P. Vanhove

Gravitational wave observatories targeted for compact binary coalescence, such as LIGO and VIRGO, require various theoretical inputs for their efficient detection. One of such inputs are analytical description of binary dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Jung-Wook Kim

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

We compute the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries at fourth Post-Minkowskian order in the large-eccentricity limit, including both potential and radiation-reaction tail effects. This is achieved by obtaining the scattering angle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We compute the conservative two-body Hamiltonian of a compact binary system with a spinning black hole through $\mathcal{O}(G^3)$ to all orders in velocity, including linear and quadratic spin terms. To obtain our results we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Guanda Lin , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng
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