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We study the gravitational scattering of massive particles with and without spin in the effective theory of gravity at one loop level. Our focus is on long distance effects arising from nonanalytic components of the scattering amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-07 Barry R. Holstein , Andreas Ross

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

The effect of gravitational radiation reaction on circular orbits around a spinning (Kerr) black hole is computed to leading order in $S$ (the magnitude of the spin angular momentum of the hole) and in the strength of gravity $M/r$ (where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Fintan D. Ryan

A recently introduced approach to the gravitational dynamics of binary systems involves intricate integrals, linked to nonlocal-in-time interactions arising at the 5-loop level of classical gravitational scattering. We complete the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico , Stefano Laporta , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

The small angle scattering (by a gravitational field) of classical and quantum particles is considered and compared. It is suggested that the differences in small angle scattering of particles with spin 0, 1, 2 are due to the nonzero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-25 A. I. Nikishov

The increasing interest in compact astrophysical objects (neutron stars, binaries, galactic black holes) has stimulated the search for rigorous methods, which allow a systematic general relativistic description of such objects. This paper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Neugebauer , R. Meinel

We explain how the lowest-order classical gravitational radiation produced during the inelastic scattering of two Schwarzschild black holes in General Relativity can be obtained from a tree scattering amplitude in gauge theory coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrés Luna , Isobel Nicholson , Donal O'Connell , Chris D. White

We study the binary dynamics of two Kerr black holes with arbitrary spin vectors in the presence of parity-even and parity-odd cubic deformations of gravity. We first derive the tree-level Compton amplitudes for a Kerr black hole in cubic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Paolo Pichini , Gabriele Travaglini , Pablo Vives Matasan

We develop a novel amplitude bootstrap technique manifestly free of unphysical poles for classically spinning particles interacting with gravitons utilizing only the double-copy and physical factorization limits. Combined with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Marcos Skowronek

In this paper, we construct a scattering theory for classical massive Dirac fields near the "double" horizon of an extreme Kerr-de Sitter blackhole. Our main tool is the existence of a conjugate operator in the sense of Mourre theory.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Jack Borthwick

In this work, we employ Ordinary Differential Equation solution method to study neutrino spin oscillations in the case when they are gravitationally scattered off a rotating Kerr black hole. Previously, this problem involved the integral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Mridupawan Deka , Maxim Dvornikov

We provide a new efficient diagrammatic tool, in the context of the scattering equations, for computation of covariant $D$-dimensional tree-level $n$-point amplitudes with pairs of spinning massive particles using compact exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Taro V. Brown , Humberto Gomez

We discuss the scattering of massive scalar probes off Myers-Perry black holes in the Kerr-Schild gauge. Extending the analysis performed recently for Kerr(-Newman) black holes, we show that the Kerr-Schild gauge allows to write down the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Massimo Bianchi , Claudio Gambino , Fabio Riccioni , Vincenzo Zevola

We calculate the inelastic $2\to3$ one-loop amplitude for the scattering of two point-like, spinless objects with generic masses involving the additional emission of a single graviton. We focus on the near-forward, or classical, limit. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Carlo Heissenberg , Ingrid Vazquez-Holm

We initiate a study into the eikonal exponentiation of the amplitude in impact-parameter space when spinning particles are involved in the scattering. Considering the gravitational scattering of two spin-1/2 particles, we demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Kays Haddad

One proposed black hole formation channel involves hierarchical mergers, where black holes form through repeated binary mergers. Previous studies have shown that such black holes follow a near-universal spin distribution centered around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-28 Angela Borchers , Claire S. Ye , Maya Fishbach

Particle scattering and radiation by a magnetically charged, dilatonic black hole is investigated near the extremal limit at which the mass is a constant times the charge. Near this limit a neighborhood of the horizon of the black hole is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. B. Giddings , A. Strominger

This paper discusses the gravitational scattering of a straight, infinitely long test cosmic string by a black hole. We present numerical results that probe the two-dimensional parameter space of impact parameter and initial velocity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jean-Pierre De Villiers , Valeri Frolov

We complete the calculation of conservative two-body scattering dynamics at fourth post-Minkowskian order, i.e. $O(G^4)$ and all orders in velocity, including radiative contributions corresponding to the tail effect in general relativity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We consider scattering in quantum gravity and derive long-range classical and quantum contributions to the scattering of light-like bosons and fermions (spin-0, spin-1/2, spin-1) from an external massive scalar field, such as the Sun or a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , John F. Donoghue , Barry R. Holstein , Ludovic Plante , Pierre Vanhove