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We present a closed formula for all Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) numerators describing $D$-dimensional tree-level scattering amplitudes in a heavy-mass effective field theory with two massive particles and an arbitrary number of gluons.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 Andreas Brandhuber , Gang Chen , Henrik Johansson , Gabriele Travaglini , Congkao Wen

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

Using modern amplitude techniques we compute the leading classical and quantum corrections to the classical gravitational potential between two massive scalars induced by adding an $R^3$ term to Einstein gravity. We then study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini

We study gravitational shock waves using scattering amplitude techniques. After first reviewing the derivation in General Relativity as an ultrarelativistic boost of a Schwarzschild solution, we provide an alternative derivation by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-03 Andrea Cristofoli

The scattering of massless waves of helicity $|h|=0,\frac{1}{2},1$ in Schwarzschild and Kerr backgrounds is revisited in the long-wavelenght regime. Using a novel description of such backgrounds in terms of gravitating massive particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We compute the scattering angle $\chi$ for hyperboliclike encounters in massless Scalar-Tensor (ST) theories up to third post-Newtonian (PN) order for the conservative part of the dynamics. To calculate the gauge-invariant scattering angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Tamanna Jain

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 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

We utilize various computational techniques in flat and curved backgrounds to calculate the classical gravitational Compton amplitude up to the second post-Minkowskian order. Our novel result supports the use of worldline quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Carl Jordan Eriksen , Nabha Shah

The BCJ duality between color and kinematics brings two advantages to calculating multi-loop scattering amplitudes. First the number of ordered cuts that need to be performed to fix the integrand to a gauge theory is minimal -- reducing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Alex Edison , Nia Robles Del Pino , Suna Zekioğlu

Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

A recently introduced approach to the classical gravitational dynamics of binary systems involves intricate integrals (linked to a combination of nonlocal-in-time interactions with iterated $\frac1r$-potential scattering) which have so far…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico , Stefano Laporta , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We calculate graviton multi-point amplitudes in an anti-de Sitter black brane background for higher-derivative gravity of arbitrary order in numbers of derivatives. The calculations are performed using tensor graviton modes in a particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-11 M. M. W. Shawa , A. J. M. Medved

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

In this paper we perform the calculation of the gravitational scattering amplitude for 4 massless scalars in quantum field theory and Type II superstring theory. We show that the results agree, providing an example of how gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Jurgis Pasukonis

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

As shown recently 2d quantum gravity theories -- including spherically reduced Einstein-gravity -- after an exact path integral of its geometric part can be treated perturbatively in the loops of (scalar) matter. Obviously the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Grumiller

This thesis aims at providing better understanding of the perturbative expansion of gauge theories with and without supersymmetry. At tree level, the BCFW recursion relations are analyzed with respect to their validity for general off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-30 Alexander Ochirov

We explore a recently proposed effective field theory describing electromagnetically or gravitationally interacting massive particles in an expansion about their mass ratio, also known as the self-force (SF) expansion. By integrating out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Clifford Cheung , Julio Parra-Martinez , Ira Z. Rothstein , Nabha Shah , Jordan Wilson-Gerow

In this text we outline the motivation for developping a quantum $S$-matrix approach for the classical gravitational two-body scattering. As an application we briefly present the derivation of black-hole metrics in various dimensions.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-21 Pierre Vanhove