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We derive the classical gravitational radiation from an aligned spin binary black hole on \textit{closed} orbits, using a dictionary built from the 5-point QFT scattering amplitude of two massive particles exchanging and emitting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Nils Siemonsen

The Hamiltonian for a system of relativistic bodies interacting by their gravitational field is found in the post-Minkowskian approximation, including all terms linear in the gravitational constant. It is given in a surprisingly simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomas Ledvinka , Gerhard Schaefer , Jiri Bicak

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 obtain a first order post-Minkowskian two-body effective potential whose post-Newtonian expansion directly reproduces the Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann potential. Post-Minkowskian potentials can be extracted from on-shell scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , Andrea Placidi

Recently we derived the next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian Hamiltonians at spin-orbit and spin(1)-spin(2) level for a binary system of compact objects. In this talk the derivation of them will be shortly outlined at an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-05 Johannes Hartung , Jan Steinhoff , Gerhard Schäfer

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 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

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

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

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

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

The problem of motion in General Relativity has lost its academic status and become an active research area since the next generation of gravity wave detectors will rely upon its solution. Here we will show, within scalar gravity, how ideas…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael A. Porto , Riccardo Sturani

We utilize generalized unitarity and recursion relations combined with effective field theory(EFT) techniques to compute spin dependent interaction terms for inspiralling binary systems in the post newtonian(PN) approximation. Using these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Varun Vaidya

We address the problem of deriving the post-Minkowskian approximation, widely used in current gravitational wave literature by investigating a possible deduction out of the recursive N\"other coupling approach, from the Pauli-Fierz spin-2…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Soumendra Kishore Roy , Ratna Koley , Parthasarathi Majumdar

We study the link between classical scattering of spinning black holes and quantum amplitudes for massive spin-$s$ particles. Generic spin orientations of the black holes are considered, allowing their spins to be deflected on par with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Alfredo Guevara , Alexander Ochirov , Justin Vines

Hamiltonian formalisms provide powerful tools for the computation of approximate analytic solutions of the Einstein field equations. The post-Newtonian computations of the explicit analytic dynamics and motion of compact binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Gerhard Schäfer , Piotr Jaranowski

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

In this short note, we propose an algorithm based on the expansions of amplitudes, the dimensional reduction technic and the differential operators, to calculate the tree level scalar-graviton amplitudes with two massive scalars, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou , Guo-Jun Zhou

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

To be observed and analyzed by the network of current gravitational wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA), and in anticipation of future third generation ground based (Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer) and space borne (LISA) detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Luc Blanchet