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A previous paper~\cite{Bern:2022kto} identified a puzzle stemming from the amplitudes-based approach to spinning bodies in general relativity: additional Wilson coefficients appear compared to current worldline approaches to conservative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-05 Zvi Bern , Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Trevor Scheopner , Fei Teng , Justin Vines

We use on-shell methods to compute all three-point interactions of massive spin-3/2 particles involving a graviton and particles of spin $\leq 1$. By employing the massive spinor-helicity formalism we identify the interactions which have a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-30 Tony Gherghetta , Wenqi Ke

In this paper we discuss propagation of the weak high-frequency gravitational waves in a curved spacetime background. We develop a so-called spinoptics approximation which takes into account interaction of the spin of the field with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrey A. Shoom

The cross section for a gravitational wave antenna to absorb a graviton may be directly expressed in terms of the non-local viscous response function of the metallic crystal. Crystal viscosity is dominated by electronic processes which then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Widom , D. Drosdoff , S. Sivasubramanian , Y. N. Srivastava

We consider the covariant proposal for the gravitational Compton amplitude for a Kerr black hole. Employing the covariant three- and four-point Compton amplitudes, we assemble the classical one-loop integrand on the maximal cut at all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Gang Chen , Tianheng Wang

We study the absorption of a class of fields in the geometry produced by extremal three-branes. We consider fields that do not mix with the ten-dimensional graviton. For these fields we solve the wave equations and find the absorption…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Samir D. Mathur , Alec Matusis

This paper presents a calculation of the four gravitons amplitude in (Anti)-de Sitter space, focusing specifically on external gravitons with positive helicity. To achieve this, we employ a generalized recursion method that involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Soner Albayrak , Savan Kharel

We apply recently developed path integral resummation methods to perturbative quantum gravity. In particular, we provide supporting evidence that eikonal graviton amplitudes factorize into hard and soft parts, and confirm a recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Chris D. White

We examine recent advancements of the spinor helicity formalism of massive particles. Technical aspects about the formulation of massive helicity spinors are presented in detail to analyze the projective-geometry kinematics of helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Camille Gomez-Laberge

We generalize the effective point particle approach to black hole dynamics to include spin. In this approach dissipative effects are captured by degrees of freedom localized on the wordline. The absorptive properties of the black hole are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-19 Rafael A. Porto

We present a classification of conformally-invariant three-point tensor structures in $d$ dimensions that parallels the classification of three-particle scattering amplitudes in $d+1$ dimensions. Using a set of canonically-normalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Hayden Lee , Xinkang Wang

In this work, we investigate the combined influence of the nontrivial topology introduced by a disclination and non inertial effects due to rotation, in the energy levels and the wave functions of a noninteracting electron gas confined to a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-21 Moises Rojas , Cleverson Figueiras , Julio Brandão , Fernando Moraes

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

We study the scattering of a graviton on a gravitational atom. By gravitational atom we mean a quantum mechanical system of a gravitational (bound) state of two massive particles, with possibly some boundary conditions (such as bouncing on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Benjamin Avila-Lopez , Richard MacKenzie , Fernando Mendez , M. B. Paranjape

A new method is applied to solve the Baxter equation for the one dimensional system of noncompact spins. Dynamics of such an ensemble is equivalent to that of a set of reggeized gluons exchanged in the high energy limit of QCD amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Wosiek , R. A. Janik

The absorption cross section is studied in the low-frequency region for a propagating scalar field under the warped AdS$_3$ black hole background in the topologically massive gravity. It can be shown that the absorption cross section is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-02 John J. Oh , Wontae Kim

Exploiting simple yet remarkable properties of relativistic gravitational scattering, we use first-order self-force (linear-in-mass-ratio) results to obtain arbitrary-mass-ratio results for the complete third-subleading post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

The inclusion of spin effects in the binary dynamics for black hole and neutron stars is crucial for the computation of gravitational wave observables. Worldline supersymmetric models have shown to be particularly efficient at this task up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

We show how to incorporate massive spinning fields into the Euclidean path integral of three-dimensional quantum gravity via its Chern-Simons formulation. The coupling of the spinning fields to gravity is captured by a Wilson spool, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-16 Robert Bourne , Alejandra Castro , Jackson R. Fliss

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