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We study the EFT of a spinning compact object and show that with appropriate gauge fixing, computations become amenable to worldline quantum field theory techniques. We use the resulting action to compute Compton and one-loop scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-08 Maor Ben-Shahar

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

I discuss a formalism for computing quantum scattering amplitudes using a semiclassical expansion of a functional integral representation for the S-matrix. The classical background for the expansion is determined by solving the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. H. Hsu

We describe the computation of post-Minkowskian Hamiltonians in General Relativity from scattering amplitudes. Using a relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation, we relate perturbative amplitudes of massive scalars coupled to gravity to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Andrea Cristofoli , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Pierre Vanhove

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

This is the first in a series of papers presenting a new understanding of scattering amplitudes based on fundamentally combinatorial ideas in the kinematic space of the scattering data. We study the simplest theory of colored scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 N. Arkani-Hamed , H. Frost , G. Salvatori , P-G. Plamondon , H. Thomas

We outline the program to apply modern quantum field theory methods to calculate observables in classical general relativity through a truncation to classical terms of the multi-graviton two-body on-shell scattering amplitudes between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Guido Festuccia , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

Tree-level scattering amplitudes for a scalar particle coupled to an arbitrary number N of photons and a single graviton are computed. We employ the worldline formalism as the main tool to compute the irreducible part of the amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-04 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Filippo Maria Balli , Olindo Corradini , José Manuel Dávila , Christian Schubert

We present rules for computing scattering amplitudes of charged scalar matter and photons, where the photon has non-zero spin Casimir $\rho$, and is therefore a continuous spin particle (CSP). The amplitudes reduce to familiar scalar QED…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

We revisit the fundamentals of two different methods for calculating classical observables: the eikonal method, which is a scattering amplitude-based method, and the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) method. The latter has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Siddarth Ajith , Yuchen Du , Ravisankar Rajagopal , Diana Vaman

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 compute the far-field time-domain waveform of the gravitational waves produced in the scattering of two spinning massive objects. The results include linear-in-spin ($S$) couplings and first-order gravitational corrections ($G^3$), and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Lara Bohnenblust , Harald Ita , Manfred Kraus , Johannes Schlenk

We examined the quantum properties of scalar-tensor gravity with a coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet term in the low energy limit, exploring both linear and quadratic couplings. We calculated the leading-order corrections to the non-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Boris Latosh , Miok Park

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 implement a probe counterpart of Newman-Janis algorithm, which Wick rotates the all-orders geodesic deviation equation into a part of exact spinning-particle equations of motion. Consequently, the gravitational dynamics of the Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Joon-Hwi Kim

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

The Newman-Janis algorithm is well known to provide rotating black holes solutions to Einstein's equations from static seeds, through a complexification of a radial and a time coordinates. However, an ambiguity remains for the replacement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 E. J. Gonzalez de Urreta , M. Socolovsky

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

The metric and the electromagnetic potential generated by a static, spherically symmetric charged massive object in any dimension are given by the Reissner-Nordstr\"om-Tangherlini solution. We derive the expansion of this solution up to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-19 Simone D'Onofrio , Federica Fragomeno , Claudio Gambino , Fabio Riccioni

We study the variance in the measurement of observables during scattering events, as computed using amplitudes. The classical regime, characterised by negligible uncertainty, emerges as a consequence of an infinite set of relationships…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Andrea Cristofoli , Riccardo Gonzo , Nathan Moynihan , Donal O'Connell , Alasdair Ross , Matteo Sergola , Chris D. White