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We compute the potential-graviton contribution to the scattering amplitude, the radial action, and the scattering angle of two extremal black holes in N = 8 supergravity at the fifth post-Minkowskian order to next-to-leading order in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Mao Zeng

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 develop a general formalism for computing classical observables for relativistic scattering of spinning particles, directly from on-shell amplitudes. We then apply this formalism to minimally coupled Einstein-gravity amplitudes for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Ben Maybee , Donal O'Connell , Justin Vines

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

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 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

We outline the program to apply modern quantum field theory methods to calculate observables in classical general relativity through a truncation to classical terms of the multi-graviton two-body on-shell scattering amplitudes between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Guido Festuccia , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

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

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 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

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

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 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 study classical scattering of charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) theory. Working in the classical (Post-Minkowskian) regime, we extract the conservative two-body potential by expanding the one loop amplitudes in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saptaswa Ghosh , Ankit Mishra , Sounak Pal

Using the implicit function theorem we demonstrate that solutions to the classical part of the relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation are in one-to-one correspondence with those of the energy equation of a relativistic two-body system. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Andrea Cristofoli , Poul H. Damgaard

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

This thesis develops a unified framework that reconstructs the full classical content of General Relativity from the classical limit of quantum scattering amplitudes. By interpreting the analytic structure of amplitudes as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Claudio Gambino

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

We compute classical gravitational observables for the scattering of two spinless black holes in general relativity and $\mathcal N {=} 8$ supergravity in the formalism of Kosower, Maybee, and O'Connell (KMOC). We focus on the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We explain how the lowest-order classical gravitational radiation produced during the inelastic scattering of two Schwarzschild black holes in General Relativity can be obtained from a tree scattering amplitude in gauge theory coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrés Luna , Isobel Nicholson , Donal O'Connell , Chris D. White
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