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We study the gravitational scattering of massive particles with and without spin in the effective theory of gravity at one loop level. Our focus is on long distance effects arising from nonanalytic components of the scattering amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-07 Barry R. Holstein , Andreas Ross

We derive the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries to third Post-Minkowskian order, using the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach introduced in [2006.01184] together with the Boundary-to-Bound dictionary developed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We describe an efficient method for extracting the parts of $D$-dimensional loop integrals that are needed to derive observables in classical general relativity from scattering amplitudes. Our approach simplifies the soft-region method of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

We revisit the old problem of the self-force on a particle moving in a weak-field spacetime in the context of renewed interest in two-body gravitational scattering. We analytically calculate the scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-06 Samuel E. Gralla , Kunal Lobo

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

Extensions of standard one-dimensional supersymmetric quantum mechanics are discussed. Supercharges involving higher order derivatives are introduced leading to an algebra which incorporates a higher order polynomial in the Hamiltonian. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 A. A. Andrianov , F. Cannata , J. -P-Dedonder , M. V. Ioffe

We use recently developed effective field theory techniques to calculate the third order post-Newtonian correction to the spin-spin potential between two spinning objects. This correction represents the first contribution to the spin-spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael A. Porto , Ira Z. Rothstein

In a previous Letter, we showed that physical scattering observables for compact spinning objects in general relativity can depend on additional degrees of freedom in the spin tensor beyond those described by the spin vector alone. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Mark Alaverdian , Zvi Bern , Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Trevor Scheopner , Fei Teng

We compute the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries at fourth Post-Minkowskian order in the large-eccentricity limit, including both potential and radiation-reaction tail effects. This is achieved by obtaining the scattering angle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

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

Self-force methods can be applied in calculations of the scatter angle in two-body hyperbolic encounters, working order by order in the mass ratio (assumed small) but with no recourse to a weak-field approximation. This, in turn, can inform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-22 Oliver Long , Leor Barack

Starting from the recently derived conservative tail-of-tail action [D. Bini and T. Damour, arXiv:2504.20204 [hep-th]] we compute several dynamical observables of binary systems (Delaunay Hamiltonian, scattering angle), at the 6.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

In matrix theory the effective action for graviton-graviton scattering is a double expansion in the relative velocity and inverse separation. We discuss the systematics of this expansion and subject matrix theory to a new test. Low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 K. Becker , M. Becker , J. Polchinski , A. Tseytlin

We present a general framework for calculating post-Minskowskian, classical, conservative Hamiltonians for $N$ non-spinning bodies in general relativity from relativistic scattering amplitudes. Novel features for $N>2$ are described…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Callum R. T. Jones , Mikhail Solon

We reproduce the two-body gravitational conservative dynamics at third post-Newtonian order for spin-less sources by using the effective field theory methods for the gravitationally bound two-body system, proposed by Goldberger and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 S. Foffa , R. Sturani

The double field theory action in the flux formulation is dimensionally reduced on a Calabi-Yau three-fold equipped with non-vanishing type IIB geometric and non-geometric fluxes. First, we rewrite the metric-dependent reduced DFT action in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Ralph Blumenhagen , Anamaria Font , Erik Plauschinn

We compute the (center-of-mass frame) scattering angle $\chi$ of hyperboliclike encounters of two spinning black holes, at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation level for orbital effects, and at the next-to-next-to-leading order for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

We treat general relativity as an effective field theory, obtaining the full nonanalytic component of the scattering matrix potential to one-loop order. The lowest order vertex rules for the resulting effective field theory are presented…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 N. E. J Bjerrum-Bohr , John F. Donoghue , Barry R. Holstein

We compute the 5PM order contributions to the scattering angle and impulse of classical black hole scattering in the conservative sector at first self-force order (1SF) using the worldline quantum field theory formalism. This challenging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Mathias Driesse , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer , Johann Usovitsch

In this work, we compute the graviton mediated scattering amplitude of a massive spin-2 Fierz-Pauli field with various other massive spin fields, and in the non-relativistic limit, find out the corresponding two-body gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Avijit Sen Majumder , Sourav Bhattacharya