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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

The classical scattering of spinning objects is well described by the spinor-helicity formalism for heavy particles. Using these variables, we derive spurious-pole-free, all-spin opposite-helicity Compton amplitudes (factorizing on physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

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 continue to investigate correspondences between, on the one hand, scattering amplitudes for massive higher-spin particles and gravitons in appropriate quantum-to-classical limits, and on the other hand, classical gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We consider the covariant proposal for the gravitational Compton amplitude for a Kerr black hole. Employing the covariant three- and four-point Compton amplitudes, we assemble the classical one-loop integrand on the maximal cut at all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Gang Chen , Tianheng Wang

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

We compute the classical tree-level five-point amplitude for the two-to-two scattering of spinning celestial objects with the emission of a graviton. Using this five-point amplitude, we then turn to the computation of the leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Gang Chen , Joshua Gowdy , Gabriele Travaglini

We construct a candidate tree-level gravitational Compton amplitude for a rotating Kerr black hole, for any quantum spin s=0,1/2,1,...,$\infty$, from which we extract the corresponding classical amplitude to all orders in the spin vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-21 Lucile Cangemi , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov , Paolo Pichini , Evgeny Skvortsov

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

It has been suggested that amplitudes for quantum higher-spin massive particles exchanging gravitons lead, via a classical limit, to results for scattering of spinning black holes in general relativity, when the massive particles are in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Nils Siemonsen , Justin Vines

We introduce a novel bootstrap method for classical Compton scattering amplitudes involving two massless gluon/graviton particles and two arbitrary-spin infinite-mass particles in a heavy-mass effective field theory context. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Marcos Skowronek

We study the link between classical scattering of spinning black holes and quantum amplitudes for massive spin-$s$ particles. Generic spin orientations of the black holes are considered, allowing their spins to be deflected on par with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Alfredo Guevara , Alexander Ochirov , Justin Vines

Quantum scattering amplitudes for massive matter have received new attention in connection to classical calculations relevant to gravitational-wave physics. Amplitude methods and insights are now employed for precision computations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

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 resolve subtleties in calculating the post-Minksowskian dynamics of binary systems, as a spin expansion, from massive scattering amplitudes of fixed finite spin. In particular, the apparently ambiguous spin Casimir terms can be fully…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Dogan Akpinar , Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We provide evidence that the classical scattering of two spinning black holes is controlled by the soft expansion of exchanged gravitons. We show how an exponentiation of Cachazo-Strominger soft factors, acting on massive higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Alfredo Guevara , Alexander Ochirov , Justin Vines

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

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 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

In this paper we compute the spin-dependent terms of the gravitational potential for general spinning bodies at the leading Newton's constant $G$ and to all orders in spin. We utilize the on-shell approach, which extracts the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-29 Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim
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