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We introduce a covariant Multipole Expansion for the scattering of a massive particle emitting photons or gravitons in $D$ dimensions. We find that these amplitudes exhibit very powerful features such as universality, soft exponentiation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-17 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara

We employ one-loop scattering amplitudes in Einstein-Maxwell theory to compute the classical Hamiltonian of a binary system of two charged, non-spinning compact objects. The Hamiltonian is valid to all orders in velocity and up to second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Allan Alonzo-Artiles , Manfred Kraus

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 compute the four-momentum radiated during the scattering of two spinless bodies, at leading order in the Newton's contant $G$ and at all orders in the velocities, using the Effective Field Theory worldline approach. Following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-29 Massimiliano Maria Riva , Filippo Vernizzi

We review our recent derivation of a Fokker action describing the conservative dynamics of a compact binary system at the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) approximation of general relativity. The two bodies are modeled by point particles, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-18 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , Alejandro Bohé , Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat

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

Gravitational waves contain tail effects that are due to the backscattering of linear waves in the curved space-time geometry around the source. The knowledge as well as the accuracy of the two-body inspiraling post-Newtonian (PN) dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-03 Luc Blanchet , Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye

New structural properties of post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity are derived, notably within its effective one body (EOB) formulation. Our results concern both the mass dependence, and the high-energy behavior, of the classical scattering angle.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Thibault Damour

We develop a formalism to compute non-perturbative 5-point scattering amplitudes and apply it to gravitational waveforms in the two-body problem for arbitrary trajectories. Drawing inspiration from Feshbach's projector formalism in nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Katsuki Aoki , Andrea Cristofoli

We compute the mass and current quadrupole tidal corrections to the four-momentum and energy flux radiated during the scattering of two spinless bodies, at leading order in $G$ and at all orders in the velocities, using the effective field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Stavros Mougiakakos , Massimiliano Maria Riva , Filippo Vernizzi

Working within the post-Minkowskian approach to General Relativity, we prove that the radiation-reaction to the emission of gravitational waves during the large-impact-parameter scattering of two (classical) point masses modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Thibault Damour

With the aim of computing bound waveforms from scattering amplitudes, we explore gravitational two-body dynamics using the Schwinger-Dyson equations and Bethe-Salpeter recursion. We show that the tree-level scattering waveform admits a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-10 Tim Adamo , Riccardo Gonzo , Anton Ilderton

We propose a method to compute the scattering angle for classical black hole scattering directly from two massive particle irreducible diagrams in a heavy-mass effective field theory approach to general relativity, without the need of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gang Chen , Gabriele Travaglini , Congkao Wen

We derive the static Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric by extracting the classical contributions from the multi-loop vertex functions of a graviton emitted from a massive scalar field. At each loop orders the classical contribution is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Stavros Mougiakakos , Pierre Vanhove

Using the spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism we calculate the quadratic-in-spin momentum impulse $\Delta p_i^\mu$ and spin kick $\Delta a_i^\mu$ from a scattering of two arbitrarily oriented spinning massive bodies (black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull

We calculate the spin-orbit corrections to the loss of angular momentum in a two-body scattering at third Post-Minkowskian order, $\mathcal O(G^3)$, from scattering amplitudes using the eikonal operator. These results include effects linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Carlo Heissenberg

We compute the classical one-loop gravitational Compton amplitude describing the scattering of a graviton off a massive spinning compact object at the second post-Minkowskian order, including terms through the quartic order in spin. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Dogan Akpinar

We compute the potential-graviton contributions to the conservative scattering angle of two non-spinning bodies in maximal supergravity at fifth order in Newton's constant, including second-order self-force effects. Our goal is to tackle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Mao Zeng

The far-zone flux of energy contains hereditary (tail) contributions that depend on the entire past history of the source. Using the multipolar post-Minkowskian wave generation formalism, we propose and implement a semi-analytical method in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 K G Arun , Luc Blanchet , Bala R Iyer , Moh'd S S Qusailah

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