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Taub-NUT black holes are somewhat exotic solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations, which have received limited attention in gravitational phenomenology. We use the soft behaviour of scattering amplitudes to compute the memory effect of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 George Doran , Ricardo Monteiro , Nathan Moynihan

We extract the long-range gravitational potential between two scalar particles with arbitrary masses from the two-to-two elastic scattering amplitude at 2nd Post-Minkowskian order in arbitrary dimensions. In contrast to the four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Andrea Cristofoli , Poul H. Damgaard , Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg

Hawking's free field theory is expected to break down after Page time. In previous work, we have shown that a primary dynamical reason for this breakdown is the dominance of graviton fluctuations of the horizon that mediate scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Nava Gaddam , Nico Groenenboom

The all-order structure of scattering amplitudes is greatly simplified by the use of Wilson line operators, describing eikonal emissions from straight lines extending to infinity. A generalization at subleading powers in the eikonal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

We study scattering equations and formulas for tree amplitudes of various theories in four dimensions, in terms of spinor helicity variables and on-shell superspace for supersymmetric theories. As originally obtained in Witten's twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Song He , Zhengwen Liu , Jun-Bao Wu

Scattering data can be generically described in terms of monodromies. Here we obtain scattering amplitudes for conformally coupled scalar fields in Kerr-de Sitter black holes using this monodromy technique. The only non-trivial parameter,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-03 Bruno Carneiro da Cunha , Fábio Novaes

We study scattering coefficients in black hole spacetimes using analytic properties of complexified wave equations. For a concrete example, we analyze the singularities of the Teukolsky equation and relate the corresponding monodromies to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Alejandra Castro , Joshua M. Lapan , Alexander Maloney , Maria J. Rodriguez

The Teukolsky equation describing scattering from Kerr black holes captures a few important effects in the process of binary mergers, such as tidal deformations and the decay of ringdown modes, thereby raising interest in the structure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Uri Kol

We provide a complete classification of the Feynman integral geometries relevant to the scattering of two black holes at fifth order in the post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion, i.e. at four loops. The analysis includes integrals relevant to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Daniel Brammer , Hjalte Frellesvig , Roger Morales , Matthias Wilhelm

New structural properties of post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity are derived, notably within its effective one body (EOB) formulation. Our results concern both the mass dependence, and the high-energy behavior, of the classical scattering angle.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Thibault Damour

We formulate an effective field theory describing large mass scalars and fermions minimally coupled to gravity. The operators of this effective field theory are organized in powers of the transfer momentum divided by the mass of the matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-29 Poul H. Damgaard , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

Here we are interested to study the spin-1 particle i.e., electro-magnetic wave in curved space-time, say around black hole. After separating the equations into radial and angular parts, writing them according to the black hole geometry,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Extending a method developed by Sasaki in the Schwarzschild case and by Shibata, Sasaki, Tagoshi, and Tanaka in the Kerr case, we calculate the post-Newtonian expansion of the gravitational wave luminosities from a test particle in circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Hideyuki Tagoshi , Masaru Shibata , Takahiro Tanaka , Misao Sasaki

Picture yourself in the wave zone of a gravitational scattering event of two massive, spinning compact bodies (black holes, neutron stars or stars). We show that this system of genuine astrophysical interest enjoys a hidden $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

Effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have primarily been developed by resumming the post-Newtonian expansion of the relativistic two-body problem. Given the recent significant advancements in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Alessandra Buonanno , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull

We study the $2 \to 2$ scattering in the regime where the wavelength of the scattered objects is comparable to their distance but is much larger than any Compton wavelength in the quantum field theory. We observe that in this regime - which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Miguel Correia , Giulia Isabella

We consider the gravitational scattering of point particles in four dimensions, at Planckian centre of mass energy and low momentum transfer, or the eikonal approximation. The scattering amplitude can be exactly computed by modelling point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Saurya Das , Arundhati Dasgupta , P. Ramadevi , Tapobrata Sarkar

We consider soft graviton scattering for a theory where Einstein's gravity is minimally coupled to a scalar field in the presence of a cosmological constant, i.e. in a background de Sitter space. Employing a perturbative expansion in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Divyesh N. Solanki , Pratik Chattopadhyay , Srijit Bhattacharjee

The KMOC (Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell) formalism establishes a bridge between quantum scattering amplitudes and classical observables in gravitational systems. In this work, we show how the weak-field limits of the four classical black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Jacobo Hernández C.

The motion of a spinning particle in the exterior of a Kerr-Newman black hole is studied. The dynamics is governed by the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations in the pole-dipole approximation, including the spin-curvature coupling to leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Ping Chen , Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee