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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 complete the computation of the gravitational waveform amplitude for non-spinning compact binaries to the third and a half post-Newtonian (PN) order in the quasi-circular case. This is done by performing a spin-weighted spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Quentin Henry

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 employ the curvature expansion of the quantum effective action for gravity-matter systems to construct graviton-mediated scattering amplitudes for non-minimally coupled scalar fields in a Minkowski background. By design, the formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Tom Draper , Benjamin Knorr , Chris Ripken , Frank Saueressig

We develop a formalism, based on spinor-helicity techniques, to generalize the formulation of partial wave unitarity bounds. We discuss unitarity bounds for $N \to M$ (with $N,M \geq 2$) scattering processes -- relevant for high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Luigi C. Bresciani , Gabriele Levati , Paride Paradisi

Gravitational waves propagating across gravitational potentials undergo lensing effects that, in the wave-optics regime, manifest as frequency-dependent amplitude and phase modulations. In this work, we revisit the diffraction integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez , Valerio De Luca , Alice Garoffolo , Julio Parra-Martinez , Mark Trodden

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

Gravitational observables for binary systems exhibit a simple polynomial dependence on the masses $m_1$, $m_2$ of the two scattering objects when they are written in terms of the appropriate kinematic variables in the post-Minkowskian (PM)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

We compute the rotations, during a scattering encounter, of the spins of two gravitationally interacting particles at second-order in the gravitational constant (second post-Minkowskian order). Following a strategy introduced in Phys. Rev.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

A new technique has been developed to calculate scattering of spin-1/2 and spin-0 particles. The so called momentum-helicity basis states are constructed from the helicity and the momentum states, which are not expanded in the angular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 I. Abdulrahman , I. Fachruddin

The computation of light scattering by the superposition T-matrix scheme has been so far restricted to systems made of particles that are either sparsely distributed or of near-spherical shape. In this work, we extend the range of…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-20 Dominik Theobald , Amos Egel , Guillaume Gomard , Uli Lemmer

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 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 study the process, within classical general relativity, in which an incident gravitational plane wave, of weak amplitude and long wavelength, scatters off a massive spinning compact object, such as a black hole or neutron star. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 M. V. S. Saketh , Justin Vines

Techniques based upon the string organisation of amplitudes may be used to simplify field theory calculations. We apply these techniques to perturbative gravity and calculate all one-loop amplitudes for four-graviton scattering with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 David C. Dunbar , Paul S. Norridge

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

Motivated by the study of extreme mass-ratio binary systems, recent work has explored the use of curved backgrounds in computations of classical gravitational amplitudes [arXiv:2308.15304, arXiv:2308.14832, arXiv:2406.14770]. While these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Carl Jordan Eriksen

A method to unitarize the scattering amplitude produced by infinite-range forces is developed and applied to Born terms. In order to apply $S$-matrix techniques, based on unitarity and analyticity, we first derive an $S$-matrix free of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-17 Diego Blas , Jorge Martin Camalich , Jose Antonio Oller

We discuss an approach to compute two-particle scattering amplitudes for spinless particles colliding at Planckian centre-of-mass energies, with increasing momentum transfer away from the eikonal limit. For electrically neutral particles,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Saurya Das , Parthasarathi Majumdar

Following the proposal of arXiv:1312.6673, multi-particle scattering amplitudes are represented as conserved higher-spin charges. The advantage of such reformulation is that multi-particle amplitudes acquire the form of an integral of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Y. O. Goncharov , M. A. Vasiliev