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We propose that the dynamics of Kerr black holes is strongly constrained by the principle of gauge symmetry. We initiate the construction of EFTs for Kerr black holes of any integer quantum spin s using Stueckelberg fields, and show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Lucile Cangemi , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov , Paolo Pichini , Evgeny Skvortsov

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

Quantum amplitudes for $s=2$ gravitational-wave perturbations of Einstein/scalar collapse to a black hole are treated by analogy with $s=1$ Maxwell perturbations. The spin-2 perturbations split into parts with odd and even parity. We use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. St. J. Farley , P. D. D'Eath

The inclusion of spin effects in the binary dynamics for black hole and neutron stars is crucial for the computation of gravitational wave observables. Worldline supersymmetric models have shown to be particularly efficient at this task up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

Motivated by recent progress in the high-energy description of gravitational scattering, we develop a systematic Regge-theory framework for $2\to2+n$ amplitudes describing the scattering of two massive particles with $n$ graviton emissions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Francesco Alessio , Vittorio Del Duca , Riccardo Gonzo , Emanuele Rosi

We provide the analytic waveform in time domain for the scattering of two Kerr black holes at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion and up to fourth order in both spins. The result is obtained by the generalization of the KMOC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-12 Stefano De Angelis , Riccardo Gonzo , Pavel P. Novichkov

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

Using the recently derived higher spin gravitational Compton amplitude from low-energy analytically continued ($a/Gm\gg1$) solutions of the Teukolsky equation for the scattering of a gravitational wave off the Kerr black hole, observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista

In this paper, we explore the physics of electromagnetically and gravitationally coupled massive higher spin states from the on-shell point of view. Starting with the three-point amplitude, we focus on the simplest amplitude which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim , Sangmin Lee

We calculate the scattering of two rotating objects with the linear-in-curvature spin-induced multipoles of Kerr black holes at $\mathcal{O}(G^2)$ and all orders in the spins of both objects. This is done including the complete set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

Scattering of two Kerr Black Holes emitting gravitational waves can be captured by an effective theory of a massive higher-spin field interacting with the gravitational field. While other compact objects should activate a multitude of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Evgeny Skvortsov , Mirian Tsulaia

We describe a systematic framework for finding the conservative potential of compact binary systems with spin based on scattering amplitudes of particles of arbitrary spin and effective field theory. An arbitrary-spin formalism is generally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Zvi Bern , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

On the basis of the correspondence principle between the relativistic moving medium electrodynamics and relativistic quantum field theory the covariant Lagrangian of the electromagnetic field interaction with the polarized spin particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Belousova , N. V. Maksimenko

Quantum amplitudes for $s=1$ at Maxwell fields and for $s=2$ linearised gravitational wave perturbations of a spherically symmetric Einstein/massless scalar background, describing gravitational collapse to a black hole, are treated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. N. St. J. Farley , P. D. D'Eath

This work on spin-0 amplitudes in black-hole evaporation is based on the underlying results and methods outlined in our first paper, "I. Complex Approach". The main result here, and the model calculation for work on all higher spins, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. St. J. Farley , P. D. D'Eath

Aspects of super-planckian gravitational scattering and black hole formation are investigated, largely via a partial-wave representation. At large and decreasing impact parameters, amplitudes are expected to be governed by single graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven B. Giddings , Mark Srednicki

We develop a spinor helicity formalism for five-dimensional scattering amplitudes of any mass and spin configuration. While five-dimensional spinor helicity variables have been previously studied in the context of N=2,4 supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Andrzej Pokraka , Smita Rajan , Lecheng Ren , Anastasia Volovich , W. Wayne Zhao

The novel massive spinor-helicity formalism of Arkani-Hamed, Huang and Huang provides an elegant way to calculate scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics for arbitrary quark spin projections. In this note we compute two families of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-18 Alexander Ochirov

We employ a single worldline effective field theory in a Schwarzschild--Tangherlini background to compute the gravitational Compton amplitude up to third post-Minkowskian order. By exposing the structure of infrared and forward divergences…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Carl Jordan Eriksen , Nabha Shah

We study gravitational absorption effects using effective on-shell scattering amplitudes. We develop an in-in probability-based framework involving plane- and partial-wave coherent states for the incoming wave to describe the interaction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Rafael Aoude , Alexander Ochirov