English
Related papers

Related papers: Scattering of spinning compact objects from a worl…

200 papers

We study the properties of entanglement entropy among scattering particles as observed from different inertial moving frames, based on an exemplary QED process $e^+e^-\rightarrow\mu^+\mu^-$. By the explicit calculation of the Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Jinbo Fan , Xinfei Li

In this series we construct an effective field theory (EFT) in curved spacetime to study gravitational radiation and backreaction effects. We begin in this paper with a derivation of the self-force on a compact object moving in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-12 Chad R. Galley , B. L. Hu

We compute the complete potential-graviton contributions to the conservative radial action and scattering angle for two non-spinning bodies in general relativity, accurate through fifth order in Newton's constant and including second-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Sid Smith , Mao Zeng

We resolve subtleties in calculating the post-Minksowskian dynamics of binary systems, as a spin expansion, from massive scattering amplitudes of fixed finite spin. In particular, the apparently ambiguous spin Casimir terms can be fully…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Dogan Akpinar , Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We analyze polarized Compton scattering which provides information on the spin-structure of the nucleon. For scattering processes with photon energies up to 100 MeV the spin-structure dependence can be encoded into four independent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas R. Hemmert , Barry R. Holstein , Joachim Kambor , Germar Knoechlein

We present stationary and axially-symmetric black hole solutions to the Einstein field equations sourced by an anisotropic fluid, describing rotating black holes embedded in astrophysical environments. We compute their physical properties,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Vitor Cardoso

The scattering cross section for a long-wavelength planar gravitational wave impinging upon a rotating black hole is calculated, for the special case in which the direction of incidence is aligned with the rotation axis. We show that black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-14 Sam R. Dolan

We present a world-line effective field theory of compact objects moving relativistically through a viscous fluid. The theory is valid when velocity gradients are small compared to the inverse size of the object. Working within the EFT…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-10 Beka Modrekiladze , Ira Z. Rothstein , Jordan Wilson-Gerow

We present a covariant framework to compute scattering amplitudes and potentials in a de Sitter background. In this setting, we compute the potential of a graviton-mediated scattering process involving two very massive scalars at tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-16 Renata Ferrero , Chris Ripken

The scattering of massless waves of helicity $|h|=0,\frac{1}{2},1$ in Schwarzschild and Kerr backgrounds is revisited in the long-wavelenght regime. Using a novel description of such backgrounds in terms of gravitating massive particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We propose a microscopic description for the polarization from the first principle through the spin-orbit coupling in particle collisions. The model is different from previous ones based on local equilibrium assumptions for the spin degree…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-11 Jun-jie Zhang , Ren-hong Fang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

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

Pion-loop corrections for Compton scattering are calculated in a novel approach based on the use of dispersion relations in a formalism obeying unitarity. The basic framework is presented, including an application to Compton scattering. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Kondratyuk , O. Scholten

Starting from a relativistic quantum field theory, we study the low energy scattering of two fermions of opposite spins interacting through a Chern-Simons field. Using the Coulomb gauge we implement the one loop renormalization program and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Gomes , A. J. da Silva

We study the space and properties of global and local observables for radiation emitted in the scattering of a massive scalar field in gauge and gravitational plane-wave backgrounds, in both the quantum and classical theory. We first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-14 Riccardo Gonzo , Anton Ilderton

We develop a formalism for describing the most general notion of tree-level scattering amplitudes in 4d conformal higher spin theory. As conformal higher spin fields obey higher-derivative equations of motion, there are many distinct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-13 Tim Adamo , Simon Nakach , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We introduce a formulation for spinning gravitating objects in the effective field theory in the post-Newtonian scheme in the context of the binary inspiral problem. We aim at an effective action, where all field modes below the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-07 Michele Levi , Jan Steinhoff

We describe an efficient method for extracting the parts of $D$-dimensional loop integrals that are needed to derive observables in classical general relativity from scattering amplitudes. Our approach simplifies the soft-region method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

Theoretical approaches to QED scattering in strong fields typically treat the field as a fixed background with simple spacetime dependence, such as a plane wave. Two major challenges are therefore the inclusion of backreaction (e.g.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Tim Adamo , Anton Ilderton

Recently we derived the next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian Hamiltonians at spin-orbit and spin(1)-spin(2) level for a binary system of compact objects. In this talk the derivation of them will be shortly outlined at an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-05 Johannes Hartung , Jan Steinhoff , Gerhard Schäfer