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I discuss a formalism for computing quantum scattering amplitudes using a semiclassical expansion of a functional integral representation for the S-matrix. The classical background for the expansion is determined by solving the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. H. Hsu

Tools from scattering amplitudes and effective field theory have recently been repurposed to derive state-of-the-art results for the black hole binary inspiral in the post-Minkowskian expansion. In the present work we extend this approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Clifford Cheung , Mikhail P. Solon

We present a formalism for computing classically measurable quantities directly from on-shell quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss the ingredients needed for obtaining the classical result, and show how to set up the calculation to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 David A. Kosower , Ben Maybee , Donal O'Connell

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

Applications of effective field theory (EFT) and scattering amplitudes to gravitational problems have recently produced many unique results that advanced our understanding of the dynamics of compact binaries. Many of these results were made…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Jovan Markovic , Mikhail M. Ivanov

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 compare numerical self-force results and analytical fourth-order post-Minkowskian (PM) calculations for hyperbolic-type scattering of a point-like particle carrying a scalar charge $Q$ off a Schwarzschild black hole, showing a remarkably…

General Relativity famously predicts precession of orbital motions in the Schwarzschild metric. In this paper we show that by adding a NUT charge $N = iM$ the precession vanishes to all orders in $G$ even for rotating black holes. Moreover,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Alfredo Guevara , Uri Kol , Huy Tran

We compute the far-field time-domain waveform of the gravitational waves produced in the scattering of two spinning massive objects. The results include linear-in-spin ($S$) couplings and first-order gravitational corrections ($G^3$), and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Lara Bohnenblust , Harald Ita , Manfred Kraus , Johannes Schlenk

We formulate eikonal approximation to the calculation of high energy scattering amplitude in the frame where both colliding objects are very energetic. We express the eikonal scattering matrix in terms of the color charge densities of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-12 T. Altinoluk , A. Kovner , J. Peressutti

We consider scattering in quantum gravity and derive long-range classical and quantum contributions to the scattering of light-like bosons and fermions (spin-0, spin-1/2, spin-1) from an external massive scalar field, such as the Sun or a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , John F. Donoghue , Barry R. Holstein , Ludovic Plante , Pierre Vanhove

The generalization of the conformal scattering method for small-angle scattering processes involving magnetic monopoles and ordinary charges is constructed. Using this generalization we show that introducing of magnetic charges corresponds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Penttinen

The scattering cross section for a long-wavelength planar gravitational wave impinging upon a rotating black hole is calculated, for the special case in which the direction of incidence is aligned with the rotation axis. We show that black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-14 Sam R. Dolan

We calculate the probability amplitude for tree-level elastic electron-muon scattering in Minkowski spacetime with carefully prepared initial and final wave packets. The obtained nonzero amplitude implies a nonvanishing probability for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 V. A. Emelyanov , F. R. Klinkhamer

We consider gravitational scattering of point particles with Planckian centre-of-mass energy and fixed low momentum transfers in the framework of general relativity and dilaton gravity. The geometry around the particles are modelled by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Saurya Das

The gravity effects in high-energy scattering, described by a four-dimensional eikonal amplitude related to gravireggeons induced by compact extra dimensions are studied. It is demonstrated that the real part of the eikonal (with a massless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Kisselev , V. A. Petrov

A precise link is derived between scalar-graviton S-matrix elements and expectation values of operators in a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT), both used to describe classical scattering of a pair of black holes. The link is formally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

Eikonal exponentiation in QFT describes the emergence of classical physics at long distances in terms of a non-trivial resummation of infinitely many diagrams. Long ago, 't Hooft proposed a beautiful correspondence between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Piotr Tourkine

A recent proposal reinterprets the eikonal as the scattering generator, which computes scattering observables through an action as a symmetry generator. The aim of this study is to incorporate dissipative effects from radiation into this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 Jung-Wook Kim

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