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We are employing a supersymmetric variant of the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) formalism to compute the far-field momentum-space gravitational waveform emitted during the scattering of two spinning black holes at next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Lara Bohnenblust , Harald Ita , Manfred Kraus , Johannes Schlenk

In black hole perturbation theory, the difficulty in separating electromagnetic and gravitational sectors of the coupled Teukolsky equations has prevented a general treatment of scattering processes involving both electromagnetic waves and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Qinyuan Zheng

By exploiting the Kerr-Schild gauge, we study the scattering of a massive (charged) scalar off a Kerr-Newman black hole. In this gauge, the interactions between the probe and the target involve only tri-linear vertices. We manage to write…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Massimo Bianchi , Claudio Gambino , Fabio Riccioni

Motivated by recent progress in the high-energy description of gravitational scattering, we develop a systematic Regge-theory framework for $2\to2+n$ amplitudes describing the scattering of two massive particles with $n$ graviton emissions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Francesco Alessio , Vittorio Del Duca , Riccardo Gonzo , Emanuele Rosi

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

Using a heavy-mass effective field theory (HEFT), we study gravitational-wave emission in the scattering of two spinless black holes or neutron stars of arbitrary masses at next-to-leading order in the Post-Minkowskian expansion. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Gang Chen , Stefano De Angelis , Joshua Gowdy , Gabriele Travaglini

We develop an on-shell approach to study black hole mergers. Since, asymptotically, the initial and final states can be described by point-like spinning particles, we propose a massive three-point amplitude for the merger of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Katsuki Aoki , Andrea Cristofoli , Yu-tin Huang

Using the Teukolsky and Sasaki-Nakamura formalisms for the perterbations around a Kerr black hole, we calculate the energy flux of gravitational waves induced by a {\it spinning} particle of mass $\mu$ and spin $S$ moving in circular orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Takahiro Tanaka , Yasushi Mino , Misao Sasaki , Masaru Shibata

Using the recently derived higher spin gravitational Compton amplitude from low-energy analytically continued ($a/Gm\gg1$) solutions of the Teukolsky equation for the scattering of a gravitational wave off the Kerr black hole, observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista

We employ a single worldline effective field theory in a Schwarzschild--Tangherlini background to compute the gravitational Compton amplitude up to third post-Minkowskian order. By exposing the structure of infrared and forward divergences…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Carl Jordan Eriksen , Nabha Shah

We derive analytic all-order-in-spin expressions for the leading-order time-domain waveforms generated in the scattering of two Kerr black holes with arbitrary masses and spin vectors in the presence of all independent cubic deformations of…

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

Building on recent approaches, we develop an effective field theory for the interaction of spinning particles modeling Kerr black holes within the gravitational self-force expansion. To incorporate dimensional regularization into this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Dogan Akpinar , Vittorio del Duca , Riccardo Gonzo

Classical black hole spacetimes can be recovered from the classical limit of quantum scattering amplitudes in a low-energy effective field theory of gravity. In this work we compute, at first post-Minkowskian and dipole order, the metric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Claudio Gambino , Fabio Riccioni , Victor Sanz Sanchis

We provide a systematic method to compute tree-level scattering amplitudes with spinning external states from amplitudes with scalar external states in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. We write down analytic answers for various scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-23 Mahesh KN Balasubramanian , Raj Patil , Arnab Rudra

We present a holographic construction of solutions to the gravitational wave equation starting from QFT scattering amplitudes. The construction amounts to a change of basis from momentum to $(2,2)$ twistor space, together with a recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-10 Alfredo Guevara

We compute the (displacement) gravitational wave memory due to a quasicircular inspiral of two black holes using a variety of perturbative techniques. Within post-Newtonian theory, we extend previous results for non-spinning binaries to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Kevin Cunningham , Chris Kavanagh , Adam Pound , David Trestini , Niels Warburton , Jakob Neef

We develop massive higher-spin theory as a framework for describing dynamics of rotating compact objects, such as Kerr black holes. In this paper, we explore gauge interactions up to quartic order and corresponding Compton amplitudes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Lucile Cangemi , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov , Paolo Pichini , Evgeny Skvortsov

We provide universal expressions for the classical piece of the amplitude given by the graviton/photon exchange between massive particles of arbitrary spin, at both tree and one loop level. In the gravitational case this leads to higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Alfredo Guevara

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 introduce a classical version of the loop corrected soft graviton theorem and we use it to compute the universal part of the one-loop (2PM) waveform up to sub-subleading order in the energy $\omega$ of the emitted graviton for spinless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 Francesco Alessio , Paolo Di Vecchia