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The Effective One-Body formalism of the gravitational two-body problem in general relativity is reconsidered in the light of recent scattering amplitude calculations. Based on the kinematic relationship between momenta and the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Poul H. Damgaard , Pierre Vanhove

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

The classical soft graviton theorem expresses the behavior of low-frequency gravitational radiation. In this paper, simplistic proofs of the classical soft graviton theorem for massless and massive scalar fields on $4$-D Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Raikhik Das

We compute the graviton-mediated two-to-two scattering amplitude and cross section for scalar particles in asymptotically safe quantum gravity. Specifically, we compute the full momentum dependence of the scalar-graviton three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-12 Angelo P. Chiesa , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

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

The Hamiltonian for a system of relativistic bodies interacting by their gravitational field is found in the post-Minkowskian approximation, including all terms linear in the gravitational constant. It is given in a surprisingly simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-03 Tomas Ledvinka , Gerhard Schaefer , Jiri Bicak

We perform a Feynman diagram calculation of the two-loop scattering amplitude for gravitationally interacting massive particles in the classical limit. Conveniently, we are able to sidestep the most taxing diagrams by exploiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Clifford Cheung , Mikhail P. Solon

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

We provide universal expressions for the classical piece of the amplitude given by the graviton/photon exchange between massive particles of arbitrary spin, at both tree and one loop level. In the gravitational case this leads to higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Alfredo Guevara

We consider an application of the Multipolar Post Minkowskian formalism to the case of a two-body system in radial fall. We compute, within the post-Newtonian approximation, the associated gravitational waveform reaching the 2.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Donato Bini , Giorgio Di Russo

In this work we propose to use leading singularities to obtain the classical pieces of amplitudes of two massive particles whose only interaction is gravitational. Leading singularities are generalizations of unitarity cuts. At one-loop we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Freddy Cachazo , Alfredo Guevara

In order to facilitate the study of weak ultra-relativistic (and Planckian) scattering we present an appropriate decomposition of the gravitational field together with its whole non-linear action. More generally the results apply to any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 Barak Kol

We extend the $2\rightarrow2$ gravitino scattering amplitude computed in [1] to an arbitrary $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity model of one chiral and one vector multiplet, in a Minkowski background with supersymmetry breaking driven by both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Ignatios Antoniadis , Jules Cunat , Anthony Guillen

The frequency-domain waveform emitted by a two-body scattering process is computed in the extreme-mass-ratio limit through the fifth post-Minkowskian (PM) order (i.e., $O(G^5)$) and the fractional sixth post-Newtonian (PN) order. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Andrea Geralico

We present the two-body Hamiltonian and associated eikonal phase, to leading post-Minkowskian order, for infinitely many tidal deformations described by operators with arbitrary powers of the curvature tensor. Scattering amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Eric Sawyer , Chia-Hsien Shen

The problem of motion in General Relativity has lost its academic status and become an active research area since the next generation of gravity wave detectors will rely upon its solution. Here we will show, within scalar gravity, how ideas…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael A. Porto , Riccardo Sturani

We present a framework for systematic computations of scattering amplitudes for gravitational Raman scattering, -- the inelastic scattering of massless fields off compact relativistic objects. We focus on the small-frequency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Yue-Zhou Li , Julio Parra-Martinez , Zihan Zhou

We investigate spin- and velocity-dependent contributions to the gravitational inter-particle potential. The methodology adopted here is based on the expansion of the effective action in terms of form factors encoding quantum corrections.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 G. P. de Brito , M. G. Campos , L. P. R. Ospedal , K. P. B. Veiga

We calculate the tidal corrections to the loss of angular momentum in a two-body collision at leading Post-Minkowskian order from an amplitude-based approach. The eikonal operator allows us to efficiently combine elastic and inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-23 Carlo Heissenberg

We describe an on-shell, amplitudes-based approach to incorporating radiation absorption effects in the post-Minkowskian scattering of generic, compact, spinning bodies. Classical spinning observables are recovered by extrapolating to large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Juan Pablo Gatica , Callum R. T. Jones