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We consider the frequency-domain LO and NLO post-Minkowskian (PM) waveforms obtained from the tree-level and one-loop amplitudes describing the scattering of two massive scalar objects and the emission of one graviton. We explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Alessandro Georgoudis , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

We present a systematic framework for computing frequency-domain gravitational waveforms from relativistic binary scattering in different asymptotic regimes. The method yields a controlled series expansion that can in principle be extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Giacomo Brunello , Vsevolod Chestnov , Giulio Crisanti , Mathieu Giroux , Sid Smith

We compute classical gravitational observables for the scattering of two spinless black holes in general relativity and $\mathcal N {=} 8$ supergravity in the formalism of Kosower, Maybee, and O'Connell (KMOC). We focus on the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We study classical scattering of charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) theory. Working in the classical (Post-Minkowskian) regime, we extract the conservative two-body potential by expanding the one loop amplitudes in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saptaswa Ghosh , Ankit Mishra , Sounak Pal

Using $\mathcal N=8$ supergravity as a theoretical laboratory, we extract the 3PM gravitational eikonal for two colliding massive scalars from the classical limit of the corresponding elastic two-loop amplitude. We employ the eikonal phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano

We show that there is a remarkable phase in quantum gravity where gravitational scattering amplitudes mediated by virtual gravitons can be calculated explicitly in effective field theory, when the impact parameter $b$ satisfies $L_{Pl}\ll b…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 Nava Gaddam , Nico Groenenboom

We derive formulae that resum, at a given order in the soft limit, the infinite series of Post-Minkowskian (small gravitational coupling) or Post-Newtonian (small velocities) corrections to the gravitational waveform produced by particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Andrea Cipriani , Giorgio Di Russo , Francesco Fucito , José Francisco Morales , Hasmik Poghosyan , Rubik Poghossian

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

Several scenarios have been proposed in which the orbits of binary black holes enter the band of a gravitational wave detector with significant eccentricity. To avoid missing these signals or biasing parameter estimation it is important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Neil J. Cornish , Joey Shapiro Key

Using the recently established formalism of a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) description of the classical scattering of two spinless black holes, we compute the far-field time-domain waveform of the gravitational waves produced in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

We calculate the tidal corrections to the loss of angular momentum in a two-body collision at leading Post-Minkowskian order from an amplitude-based approach. The eikonal operator allows us to efficiently combine elastic and inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-23 Carlo Heissenberg

An exponential representation of the S-matrix provides a natural framework for understanding the semi-classical limit of scattering amplitudes. While sharing some similarities with the eikonal formalism it differs from it in details.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Poul H. Damgaard , Ludovic Plante , Pierre Vanhove

We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Driven by advances in scattering amplitudes and worldline-based methods, recent years have seen significant progress in our ability to calculate gravitational two-body scattering observables. These observables effectively encapsulate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Mogull , Raj Patil , Lorenzo Pompili

We study the wave form emitted by a particle moving along an arbitrary (in general open) geodesic of the Schwarzschild geometry. The mathematical problem can be phrased in terms of quantities in ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Francesco Fucito , Jose Francisco Morales , Rodolfo Russo

We study gravitational absorption effects using effective on-shell scattering amplitudes. We develop an in-in probability-based framework involving plane- and partial-wave coherent states for the incoming wave to describe the interaction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Rafael Aoude , Alexander Ochirov

Motivated by conceptual problems in quantum theories of gravity, the gravitational eikonal approach, inspired by its electromagnetic predecessor, has been successfully applied to the transplanckian energy collisions of elementary particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-08 Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano

Gravitational wave observatories targeted for compact binary coalescence, such as LIGO and VIRGO, require various theoretical inputs for their efficient detection. One of such inputs are analytical description of binary dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Jung-Wook Kim

We describe an approach to incorporating the physical effects of the absorption of energy by the event horizon of black holes in the scattering amplitudes based post-Minkowskian, point-particle effective description. Absorptive dynamics are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-05 Callum R. T. Jones , Michael S. Ruf

We compute the total radiated momentum carried by gravitational waves during the scattering of two spinless black holes at the lowest order in Newton's constant, $\mathcal O(G^3)$, and all orders in velocity. By analytic continuation into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng