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The scattering of charged massive scalar waves by Kerr-Newman black holes, with incidence along the equatorial plane, is investigated in this work. The differential scattering cross section is computed using the partial wave method, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Qian Li , Qianchuan Wang , Junji Jia

We compute the (center-of-mass frame) scattering angle $\chi$ of hyperboliclike encounters of two spinning black holes, at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation level for orbital effects, and at the next-to-next-to-leading order for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

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

We investigate superradiant scattering off a rotating regular black hole described by a black-bounce metric which generalizes the Kerr spacetime of mass $M$ and specific angular momentum $a$ through a regularization parameter $p$ and two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Pedro Henrique Croti Siqueira , Maurício Richartz

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 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 radial action of a spinning probe particle in Kerr spacetime from the worldline formalism in the first-order form, focusing on linear in spin effects. We then develop a novel covariant Dirac bracket formalism to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-28 Riccardo Gonzo , Canxin Shi

In this work we have studied the scattering of scalar field around an extended black hole in F(R) gravity using WKB method. We have obtained the wave function in different regions such as near the horizon region, away from horizon and far…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Saneesh Sebastian , V. C. Kuriakose

This is a study of the scattering and absorption of planar gravitational waves by a Kerr black hole in vacuum. We apply the partial wave method to compute cross sections for the special case of radiation incident along the rotation axis. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sam R. Dolan

We study the scattering of axially incident massless scalar waves by a charged and rotating black hole solution from heterotic string theory called the Kerr-Sen black hole. We compute the scattering cross section using the partial wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-23 Sérgio V. M. C. B. Xavier , Carolina L. Benone , Luiz C. S. Leite , Luís C. B. Crispino

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

The Teukolsky equation describing scattering from Kerr black holes captures a few important effects in the process of binary mergers, such as tidal deformations and the decay of ringdown modes, thereby raising interest in the structure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Uri Kol

Using the worldline quantum field theory approach we derive solutions to the equations of motion for spinning massive bodies up to quadratic order in spins. At leading post-Minkowskian (PM) order these trajectories are obtained in the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Kathrin Stoldt

Geodesic scattering of a test particle off a Schwarzschild black hole can be parameterized by the speed-at-infinity $v$ and the impact parameter $b$, with a "separatrix", $b=b_c(v)$, marking the threshold between scattering and plunge. Near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Oliver Long , Christopher Whittall , Leor Barack

We compute the vacuum metric generated by a generic rotating object in arbitrary dimensions up to third post-Minkowskian order by computing the classical contribution of scattering amplitudes describing the graviton emission by massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Claudio Gambino , Paolo Pani , Fabio Riccioni

Using the worldline quantum field theory formalism, we compute the conservative scattering angle and impulse for classical black hole scattering at fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) order by providing the second self-force (2SF) contributions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Mathias Driesse , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Christoph Nega , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer , Johann Usovitsch

We investigate the scattering of a massless scalar field by a Kerr-Newman black hole, considering the case of on-axis incidence. We use the partial wave method to find numerical results for the scattering cross section, which we compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-11 Luiz C. S. Leite , Carolina L. Benone , Luís C. B. Crispino

Scattering of particles in the gravitational field of rotating black holes is considered. Expressions for scattering energy of particles in the centre of mass system are obtained. It is shown that scattering energy of particles in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-05 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

We study scattering of polarized light by a rotating (Kerr) black hole of the mass M and the angular momentum J. In order to keep trace of the polarization dependence of photon trajectories one can use the following dimensionless parameter:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrey A. Shoom

Using the ${\mathcal N}=1$ supersymmetric, spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism we compute the conservative spin-orbit part of the momentum impulse $\Delta p_i^\mu$, spin kick $\Delta S_i^\mu$ and scattering angle $\theta$ from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-23 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer , Yingxuan Xu