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We compute the semi-classical potential arising from a generic theory of cubic gravity, a higher derivative theory of spin-2 particles, in the framework of modern amplitude techniques. We show that there are several interesting aspects of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 William T Emond , Nathan Moynihan

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

Eikonal exponentiation in QFT describes the emergence of classical physics at long distances in terms of a non-trivial resummation of infinitely many diagrams. Long ago, 't Hooft proposed a beautiful correspondence between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Piotr Tourkine

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

The worldline formalism offers an alternative framework to the standard diagrammatic approach in quantum field theory, grounded in first-quantized relativistic path integrals. Over recent decades, this formalism has attracted growing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Victor Miguel Banda Guzmán

We derive the classical gravitational radiation from an aligned spin binary black hole on \textit{closed} orbits, using a dictionary built from the 5-point QFT scattering amplitude of two massive particles exchanging and emitting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Nils Siemonsen

Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

Scattering amplitudes have their origin in quantum field theory, but have wide-ranging applications extending to classical physics. We review a formalism to connect certain classical observables to scattering amplitudes. An advantage of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-04 David A. Kosower , Ricardo Monteiro , Donal O'Connell

We are employing a supersymmetric variant of the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) formalism to compute the far-field momentum-space gravitational waveform emitted during the scattering of two spinning black holes at next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Lara Bohnenblust , Harald Ita , Manfred Kraus , Johannes Schlenk

In this paper, working in the eikonal approximation, we present a proof for the exponentiation of the 2-body eikonal phase to {\it all orders in the eikonal expansion}, for scalar particles interacting electromagnetically or…

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

We present a generalized unitarity method for theories of point-particle worldlines coupled to gravity, analogous to that of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. This method allows the computation of perturbative observables from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Vincent F. He , Julio Parra-Martinez

A precise link is derived between scalar-graviton S-matrix elements and expectation values of operators in a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT), both used to describe classical scattering of a pair of black holes. The link is formally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

A~dynamical justification of quantum differential cross section in the context of long time transition to stationary regime for the Schr\"odinger equation is suggested. The problem has been stated by Reed and Simon. Our approach is based on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Alexander Komech

The recently developed worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) formalism for the classical gravitational scattering of massive bodies is extended to massive, charged point particles coupling to bi-adjoint scalar field theory, Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Canxin Shi , Jan Plefka

We compute the next-to-leading order term in the scattering waveform of uncharged black holes in classical general relativity and of half-BPS black holes in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity. We propose criteria, generalizing explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

The classical eikonal is defined to be the generator of all scattering observables in a scattering problem in classical mechanics. It was originally introduced as the log of the quantum S-matrix in the classical limit. But its classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Sungsoo Kim , Hojin Lee , Sangmin Lee

We apply the recently developed formalism by Kosower, Maybee and O'Connell (KMO) to analyse the soft electromagnetic and soft gravitational radiation emitted by particles without spin in Four and higher dimensions. We use this formalism in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Manu A , Debodirna Ghosh , Alok Laddha , Athira P.

We study the link between classical scattering of spinning black holes and quantum amplitudes for massive spin-$s$ particles. Generic spin orientations of the black holes are considered, allowing their spins to be deflected on par with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Alfredo Guevara , Alexander Ochirov , Justin Vines

Waveforms are classical observables associated with any radiative physical process. Using scattering amplitudes, these are usually computed in a weak-field regime to some finite order in the post-Newtonian or post-Minkowskian approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton , Sonja Klisch

We describe progress applying the \textit{Worldline Formalism} of quantum field theory to the fermion propagator dressed by $N$-photons to study multi-linear Compton scattering processes, explaining how this approach -- whose calculational…