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We continue to investigate correspondences between, on the one hand, scattering amplitudes for massive higher-spin particles and gravitons in appropriate quantum-to-classical limits, and on the other hand, classical gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We study the gravitational radiation emitted during the scattering of two spinless bodies in the post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory approach. We derive the conserved stress-energy tensor linearly coupled to gravity and the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Stavros Mougiakakos , Massimiliano Maria Riva , Filippo Vernizzi

We present the contribution from potential interactions to the dynamics of non-spinning binaries to fourth Post-Minkowskian (4PM) order. This is achieved by computing the scattering angle to ${\cal O}(G^4)$ using the effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

In this thesis we present a study of the computation of classical observables in gauge theories and gravity directly from scattering amplitudes. In particular, we discuss the direct application of modern amplitude techniques in the one, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Yilber Fabian Bautista

We initiate the construction of the global Poincar\'e algebra generators in the context of the post-Minkowskian Hamiltonian formulation of gravitating binary dynamics in isotropic coordinates that is partly inspired by scattering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 Hojin Lee , Sangmin Lee

It has been suggested that amplitudes for quantum higher-spin massive particles exchanging gravitons lead, via a classical limit, to results for scattering of spinning black holes in general relativity, when the massive particles are in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Nils Siemonsen , Justin Vines

By combining the KMOC-formalism with the exponential representation of the scattering matrix we show that the two-body scattering angle is given by the corresponding matrix element of the exponential representation. This holds to all orders…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Poul H. Damgaard , Elias Roos Hansen , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

We present the result of the quadratic-in-spin 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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Raj Patil , Jan Steinhoff

We provide a new efficient diagrammatic tool, in the context of the scattering equations, for computation of covariant $D$-dimensional tree-level $n$-point amplitudes with pairs of spinning massive particles using compact exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Taro V. Brown , Humberto Gomez

Exploiting simple yet remarkable properties of relativistic gravitational scattering, we use first-order self-force (linear-in-mass-ratio) results to obtain arbitrary-mass-ratio results for the complete third-subleading post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

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

A technique for translating the classical scattering function of two gravitationally interacting bodies into a corresponding (effective one-body) Hamiltonian description has been recently introduced [Phys.\ Rev.\ D {\bf 94}, 104015 (2016)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Thibault Damour

New structural properties of post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity are derived, notably within its effective one body (EOB) formulation. Our results concern both the mass dependence, and the high-energy behavior, of the classical scattering angle.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Thibault Damour

We use $\mathcal N=8$ supergravity as a toy model for understanding the dynamics of black hole binary systems via the scattering amplitudes approach. We compute the conservative part of the classical scattering angle of two extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We propose a method to compute the scattering angle for classical black hole scattering directly from two massive particle irreducible diagrams in a heavy-mass effective field theory approach to general relativity, without the need of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gang Chen , Gabriele Travaglini , Congkao Wen

In this work the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach to computing observables of the classical general relativistic two-body system is presented. Compact bodies such as black holes or neutron stars are described in an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

Waveforms are classical observables associated with any radiative physical process. Using scattering amplitudes, these are usually computed in a weak-field regime to some finite order in the post-Newtonian or post-Minkowskian approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton , Sonja Klisch

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 revisit the quantum-amplitude-based derivation of the gravitational waveform emitted by the scattering of two spinless massive bodies at the third order in Newton's constant, $h \sim G+G^2+G^3$ (one-loop level), and correspondingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Stefano De Angelis , Andrea Geralico , Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

We investigate the relativistic scattering of spinning black holes using modern amplitude methods within a heavy-mass effective field theory formalism at third post-Minkowskian order. Using a systematic self-force expansion up to first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Konstantinos Papadimos , Yuexiang Zhang