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We study the process, within classical general relativity, in which an incident gravitational plane wave, of weak amplitude and long wavelength, scatters off a massive spinning compact object, such as a black hole or neutron star. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 M. V. S. Saketh , Justin Vines

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 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

We calculate the spin-averaged amplitude for doubly virtual forward Compton scattering off nucleons in the framework of manifestly Lorentz invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory at complete one-loop order $O(p^4)$. The calculations are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-02-24 J. Lozano , A. Agadjanov , J. Gegelia , U. -G. Meißner , A. Rusetsky

We describe a systematic framework for finding the conservative potential of compact binary systems with spin based on scattering amplitudes of particles of arbitrary spin and effective field theory. An arbitrary-spin formalism is generally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Zvi Bern , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

We develop a quadratic-in-Riemann worldline action for a Kerr black hole at infinite spin orders by matching to a proposed tree-level Kerr Compton amplitude, originally obtained from higher-spin QFT considerations. A worldline action is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Maor Ben-Shahar , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson

We propose that the dynamics of Kerr black holes is strongly constrained by the principle of gauge symmetry. We initiate the construction of EFTs for Kerr black holes of any integer quantum spin s using Stueckelberg fields, and show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Lucile Cangemi , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov , Paolo Pichini , Evgeny Skvortsov

In this paper we define absorptive Compton amplitudes, which captures the absorption factor for waves of spin-weight-$s$ scattering in black hole perturbation theory. At the leading order, in the $G M \omega$ expansion, such amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-23 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Yu-Tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim

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 develop a systematic effective field theory calculation of the quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes valid for arbitrary spin, providing model-independent corrections to their ringdown spectrum directly relevant for gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 William L. Boyce , Jorge E. Santos

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

We provide evidence that the classical scattering of two spinning black holes is controlled by the soft expansion of exchanged gravitons. We show how an exponentiation of Cachazo-Strominger soft factors, acting on massive higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Alfredo Guevara , Alexander Ochirov , Justin Vines

It has been shown that a special set of three-point amplitudes between two massive spinning states and a graviton reproduces the linearised stress-energy tensor for a Kerr black hole in the classical limit. In this work we revisit this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Lucile Cangemi , Paolo Pichini

We calculate the scattering of two rotating objects with the linear-in-curvature spin-induced multipoles of Kerr black holes at $\mathcal{O}(G^2)$ and all orders in the spins of both objects. This is done including the complete set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

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

This work on spin-0 amplitudes in black-hole evaporation is based on the underlying results and methods outlined in our first paper, "I. Complex Approach". The main result here, and the model calculation for work on all higher spins, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. St. J. Farley , P. D. D'Eath

Scattering of two Kerr Black Holes emitting gravitational waves can be captured by an effective theory of a massive higher-spin field interacting with the gravitational field. While other compact objects should activate a multitude of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Evgeny Skvortsov , Mirian Tsulaia

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

We compute the classical one-loop gravitational Compton amplitude describing the scattering of a graviton off a massive spinning compact object at the second post-Minkowskian order, including terms through the quartic order in spin. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Dogan Akpinar

We set up a procedure to systematically obtain Compton-like amplitudes in an arbitrary-spin theory, exploiting their factorization properties, and colour-kinematics duality. We furthermore investigate the constraining of Wilson coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 Ingrid Vazquez-Holm , Andres Luna