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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 present a detailed study of scattering by an amplitude-modulated potential barrier using three distinct physical frameworks: quantum, classical, and semiclassical. Classical physics gives bounds on the energy and momentum of the…

The asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles at high energies with fixed momentum transfers is studied. The study is done within the effective theory of quantum gravity based on quasi-potential equation. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Nguyen Suan Han , Do Thu Ha , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

We present a rigorous study of the classical scattering for anytwo-body inter-particle potential of the form $v(r)=g/r^\gamma$, with$\gamma\textgreater{}0$, for repulsive ($g\textgreater{}0$) and attractive ($g\textless{}0$)interactions. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-05 D Chiron , B Marcos

The S-matrix in gravitational high energy scattering is computed from the region of large impact parameters b down to the regime where classical gravitational collapse is expected to occur. By solving the equation of an effective action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Giuseppe Marchesini , Enrico Onofri

Scattering problems are the classical tools for modeling of light-matter interaction. In this paper, we investigate the solution of the dipole scattering problem under different incident radiation.s In particular, we compare the two cases…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yuriy A. Akimov

In this paper, working in the eikonal approximation, we present a proof for the exponentiation of the 2-body eikonal phase to {\it all orders in the eikonal expansion}, for scalar particles interacting electromagnetically or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Yuchen Du , Siddarth Ajith , Ravisankar Rajagopal , Diana Vaman

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

Using $\mathcal N=8$ supergravity as a theoretical laboratory, we extract the 3PM gravitational eikonal for two colliding massive scalars from the classical limit of the corresponding elastic two-loop amplitude. We employ the eikonal phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano

Two fundamentally distinct types of quantities are both called "eikonal" in present amplitudes literature. The unitarity of the S-matrix ensures it can be written as the exponential of a Hermitian operator. The eikonal generator or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Jung-Wook Kim , Raj Patil , Trevor Scheopner , Jan Steinhoff

Asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles by scalar, vector and tensor exchanges at high energy and fixed momentum transfers is reconsidered in quantum field theory. In the framework of the quasi-potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-05-02 Nguyen Suan Han , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

We formulate eikonal approximation to the calculation of high energy scattering amplitude in the frame where both colliding objects are very energetic. We express the eikonal scattering matrix in terms of the color charge densities of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-12 T. Altinoluk , A. Kovner , J. Peressutti

In a classical scattering problem, the classical eikonal is defined as the generator of the canonical transformation that maps in-states to out-states. It can be regarded as the classical limit of the log of the quantum S-matrix. In a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Joon-Hwi Kim , Jung-Wook Kim , Sungsoo Kim , Sangmin Lee

We study the classical dynamics of spinning particles using scattering amplitudes and eikonal exponentiation. We show that observables are determined by a simple algorithm. A wealth of complexity arises in perturbation theory as positions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-20 Andres Luna , Nathan Moynihan , Donal O'Connell , Alasdair Ross

Within the framework of the Zakharov-Schulman approach, in close analogy with the methods of quantum field theory, the classical scattering matrix for the simplest process of interaction between hard and soft excitations in a quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Yu. A. Markov , M. A. Markova , D. M. Gitman , N. Yu. Markov

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 establish the precise relation between the integral kernel of the scattering matrix and the resonance in the massless Spin-Boson model which describes the interaction of a two-level quantum system with a second-quantized scalar field.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Miguel Ballesteros , Dirk-André Deckert , Felix Hänle

Celestial scattering amplitudes for massless particles are Mellin transforms of momentum-space scattering amplitudes with respect to the energies of the external particles, and behave as conformal correlators on the celestial sphere.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Tim Adamo , Wei Bu , Piotr Tourkine , Bin Zhu

We discuss an approach to compute two-particle scattering amplitudes for spinless particles colliding at Planckian centre-of-mass energies, with increasing momentum transfer away from the eikonal limit. For electrically neutral particles,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Saurya Das , Parthasarathi Majumdar

Eikonal exponentiation in QFT describes the emergence of classical physics at long distances in terms of a non-trivial resummation of infinitely many diagrams. Long ago, 't Hooft proposed a beautiful correspondence between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Piotr Tourkine