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We present a new approach to the conservative dynamics of binary systems, within the effective one-body (EOB) framework, based on the use of a Lagrange multiplier to impose the mass-shell constraint. When applied to the post-Minkowskian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Andrea Placidi , Piero Rettegno

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

We study the multichannel scattering in the classical three-body system and show that the problem can be formulated as a motion of the point mass on a curved hyper-surface of the energy of the body-system. It is proved that the local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Ashot S. Gevorkyan

To build a self-consistent effective-one-body (EOB) theory, in which the Hamiltonian, radiation-reaction force and waveform for the "plus" and "cross" modes of the gravitational wave should be based on the same effective background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Jiliang Jing , Shuai Chen , Manman Sun , Xiaokai He , Mengjie Wang , Jieci Wang

We compute the semi-classical potential arising from a generic theory of cubic gravity, a higher derivative theory of spin-2 particles, in the framework of modern amplitude techniques. We show that there are several interesting aspects of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 William T Emond , Nathan Moynihan

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 classical scattering of spinning objects is well described by the spinor-helicity formalism for heavy particles. Using these variables, we derive spurious-pole-free, all-spin opposite-helicity Compton amplitudes (factorizing on physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

We compute the 5PM order contributions to the scattering angle and impulse of classical black hole scattering in the conservative sector at first self-force order (1SF) using the worldline quantum field theory formalism. This challenging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Mathias Driesse , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer , Johann Usovitsch

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

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 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

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

The conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting two-point-mass systems has been recently determined at the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) approximation [T.Damour, P.Jaranowski, and G.Sch\"afer, Phys. Rev. D 89, 064058 (2014)], and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-01 Thibault Damour , Piotr Jaranowski , Gerhard Schäfer

This is a revised version of our previous paper by the same name and preprint number. It contains various changes, two figures and new results in sect.5. We propose a new approach to four-dimensional Planckian-energy scattering in which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Fabbrichesi , R. Pettorini , G. Veneziano , G. A. Vilkovisky

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

The geodesic equation encodes test-particle dynamics at arbitrary gravitational coupling, hence retaining all orders in the post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion. Here we explore what geodesic motion can tell us about dynamical scattering in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Clifford Cheung , Nabha Shah , Mikhail P. Solon

We explore the logarithmic terms in the soft theorem in four dimensions by analyzing classical scattering with generic incoming and outgoing states and one loop quantum scattering amplitudes. The classical and quantum results are consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-19 Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen

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 present a systematic diagrammatic investigation of the classical limit of observables computed from scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory through the Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) formalism, motivated by the study of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Zeno Capatti , Mao Zeng

Starting from the recently derived conservative tail-of-tail action [D. Bini and T. Damour, arXiv:2504.20204 [hep-th]] we compute several dynamical observables of binary systems (Delaunay Hamiltonian, scattering angle), at the 6.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico