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Using the ${\mathcal N}=1$ supersymmetric, spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism we compute the conservative spin-orbit part of the momentum impulse $\Delta p_i^\mu$, spin kick $\Delta S_i^\mu$ and scattering angle $\theta$ from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-23 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer , Yingxuan Xu

We resolve subtleties in calculating the post-Minksowskian dynamics of binary systems, as a spin expansion, from massive scattering amplitudes of fixed finite spin. In particular, the apparently ambiguous spin Casimir terms can be fully…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Dogan Akpinar , Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the modern amplitudes program such as generalized unitarity and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Zvi Bern , Clifford Cheung , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

Motivated by the recent introduction of the Dirac bracket framework to compute spinning observables for the scattering of Kerr black holes, we initiate the study of conserved quantities from an on-shell amplitude perspective. We establish…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Dogan Akpinar , Graham R. Brown , Riccardo Gonzo , Mao Zeng

We describe an on-shell, amplitudes-based approach to incorporating radiation absorption effects in the post-Minkowskian scattering of generic, compact, spinning bodies. Classical spinning observables are recovered by extrapolating to large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Juan Pablo Gatica , Callum R. T. Jones

Using scattering amplitudes, we obtain the potential contributions to conservative binary dynamics in general relativity at fourth post-Minkowskian order, ${\cal O}(G^4)$. As in previous lower-order calculations, we harness powerful tools…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

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

It has been suggested that amplitudes for quantum higher-spin massive particles exchanging gravitons lead, via a classical limit, to results for scattering of spinning black holes in general relativity, when the massive particles are in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Nils Siemonsen , Justin Vines

We introduce a new coherent state expansion of the exponential representation of the S-matrix for the classical gravitational two-body problem. By combining the Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) formalism with the Dirac bracket structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Francesco Alessio , Riccardo Gonzo , Canxin Shi

Using the spinning worldline quantum field theory formalism we calculate the quadratic-in-spin momentum impulse $\Delta p_i^\mu$ and spin kick $\Delta a_i^\mu$ from a scattering of two arbitrarily oriented spinning massive bodies (black…

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

We compute the conservative two-body Hamiltonian of a compact binary system with a spinning black hole through $\mathcal{O}(G^3)$ to all orders in velocity, including linear and quadratic spin terms. To obtain our results we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Guanda Lin , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We investigate the dynamics of spinning binaries of compact objects at the next-to-leading order in the quadratic-in-spin effects, which corresponds to the third post-Newtonian order (3PN). Using a Dixon-type multipolar formalism for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Alejandro Bohé , Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat , Edward K Porter

We develop a general formalism for computing classical observables for relativistic scattering of spinning particles, directly from on-shell amplitudes. We then apply this formalism to minimally coupled Einstein-gravity amplitudes for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Ben Maybee , Donal O'Connell , Justin Vines

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

We complete the calculation of conservative two-body scattering dynamics at fourth post-Minkowskian order, i.e. $O(G^4)$ and all orders in velocity, including radiative contributions corresponding to the tail effect in general relativity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Zvi Bern , Julio Parra-Martinez , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

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

We derive the radial action of a spinning probe particle in Kerr spacetime from the worldline formalism in the first-order form, focusing on linear in spin effects. We then develop a novel covariant Dirac bracket formalism to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-28 Riccardo Gonzo , Canxin Shi

In this work the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach to computing observables of the classical general relativistic two-body system is presented. Compact bodies such as black holes or neutron stars are described in an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

In this work we complete the spin-dependent conservative dynamics of inspiralling compact binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian order, and in particular the derivation of the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-squared interaction potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-23 Michèle Levi , Jan Steinhoff

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
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