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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

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

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 use effective field theory (EFT) to calculate the scattering amplitude of a LIGO-like graviton-scalar Compton interaction. We gauge the center-of-momentum energy $\sqrt{s}$ between one gravitational-wave (GW) graviton (one quantum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Noah M. MacKay

We investigate the gravitational scattering of a spinning probe mass in a Kerr background using the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach. This corresponds to the leading term (0SF) in the gravitational self-force expansion for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Jitze Hoogeveen , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Jan Plefka

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

In this thesis we present a study of the computation of classical observables in gauge theories and gravity directly from scattering amplitudes. In particular, we discuss the direct application of modern amplitude techniques in the one, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Yilber Fabian Bautista

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

Using the gravitational potential and source multipole moments bilinear in the spins, first computed to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion within the effective field theory (EFT) framework, we complete here the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Gihyuk Cho , Brian Pardo , Rafael A. Porto

We investigate the relativistic scattering of spinning black holes using modern amplitude methods within a heavy-mass effective field theory formalism at third post-Minkowskian order. Using a systematic self-force expansion up to first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Konstantinos Papadimos , Yuexiang Zhang

In this thesis, I will study the classical scattering problem of two Kerr black holes in general relativity with novel quantum field theory techniques in the Post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion, generalizing the subleading soft theorem to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-04 Damiano Barcaro

We study the compatibility of recursive techniques with the classical limit of scattering amplitudes through the construction of the classical Compton amplitude for general spinning compact objects. This is done using BCFW recursion on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Kays Haddad

We theoretically investigate a scattering configuration in Compton scattering, in which the orientation of the electron spin is reversed and simultaneously, the photon polarization changes from linear polarization into circular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Sven Ahrens , Chang-Pu Sun

Parity of effects induced by one loop corrections of Standard model of Compton scattering are considered. We note the main effects arise from W contributions. Keeping in the mind scheme independent gauge invariance amplitude we calculated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 E. Bartos , V. Bytev , E. Kuraev

We present in detail an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formulation for the essential case of spinning objects as the components of inspiralling compact binaries. We review its implementation, carried out in a series of works in recent years,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-27 Michele Levi

We utilize generalized unitarity and recursion relations combined with effective field theory(EFT) techniques to compute spin dependent interaction terms for inspiralling binary systems in the post newtonian(PN) approximation. Using these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Varun Vaidya

Starting with on-shell amplitudes compatible with the scattering of Kerr black holes, we produce the gravitational waveform and memory effect including spin at their leading post-Minkowskian orders to all orders in the spins of both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-01 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Carlo Heissenberg , Andreas Helset

Motivated by the study of extreme mass-ratio binary systems, recent work has explored the use of curved backgrounds in computations of classical gravitational amplitudes [arXiv:2308.15304, arXiv:2308.14832, arXiv:2406.14770]. While these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Carl Jordan Eriksen

We compute the rotations, during a scattering encounter, of the spins of two gravitationally interacting particles at second-order in the gravitational constant (second post-Minkowskian order). Following a strategy introduced in Phys. Rev.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

Picture yourself in the wave zone of a gravitational scattering event of two massive, spinning compact bodies (black holes, neutron stars or stars). We show that this system of genuine astrophysical interest enjoys a hidden $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff