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The post-Minkowskian expansion of Einstein's general theory of relativity has received much attention in recent years due to the possibility of harnessing the computational power of modern amplitude calculations in such a classical context.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , P. H. Damgaard , L. Plante , P. Vanhove

We obtain a first order post-Minkowskian two-body effective potential whose post-Newtonian expansion directly reproduces the Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann potential. Post-Minkowskian potentials can be extracted from on-shell scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , Andrea Placidi

In this work, we derive the conservative dynamics of non-spinning binaries in the massless scalar-tensor theories using the post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach. Our main result is an analytic expression of the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Laura Bernard , Tamanna Jain , Stavros Mougiakakos

Two-spinor formalism for Einstein Lagrangian is developed. The gravitational field is regarded as a composite object derived from soldering forms. Our formalism is geometrically and globally well-defined and may be used in virtually any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Godina , Paolo Matteucci , Lorenzo Fatibene , Mauro Francaviglia

We discuss the first-time calculation of the static gravitational two-body potential up to fifth post-Newtonian(PN) order. The results are achieved through a manifest factorization property of the odd PN diagrams. The factorization property…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Stefano Foffa , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Riccardo Sturani , Christian Sturm , William J. Torres Bobadilla

The aim of this note is to describe the computation of post-Minkwoskian Hamiltonians in modified theories of gravity. Exploiting a recent relation between amplitudes of massive scalars and Hamiltonians for relativistic point-particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrea Cristofoli

We establish and develop a novel methodology to treat higher-order non-linear effects of gravitational radiation that is scattered from binary inspirals, which employs modern scattering-amplitudes methods on the effective picture of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-27 Alex Edison , Michèle Levi

In this paper the relativistic quantum dynamics of a spin-1/2 neutral particle with a magnetic moment $\mu$ in the cosmic string spacetime is reexamined by applying the von Neumann theory of self--adjoint extensions. Contrary to previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Fabiano M. Andrade , Cleverson Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

The need for more and more accurate gravitational wave templates requires taking into account all possible contributions to the emission of gravitational radiation from a binary system. Therefore, working within a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

We present the conservative dynamics of compact binaries to third order in the post-Minkowskian approximation in a theory that extends general relativity by a massless scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Yuchen Du , Zhengwen Liu , Hongbin Wang

In this paper we study the scattering of gravitons off a five orientifold in eleven dimensions. We compare the supergravity result with a two loop M(atrix) model calculation and find exact agreement. The supergravity calculation involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ulf H. Danielsson , Par Stjernberg , Martin Kruczenski

We compute the four-momentum radiated during the scattering of two spinless bodies, at leading order in the Newton's contant $G$ and at all orders in the velocities, using the Effective Field Theory worldline approach. Following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-29 Massimiliano Maria Riva , Filippo Vernizzi

We explain why Calabi-Yau and complete elliptic integrals do not contribute to conservative observables at fifth post-Minkowskian order, despite appearing in intermediate steps. At even loop orders, conservative contributions are tied to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Zvi Bern , Avery Jackman , Gareth Mansfield , Michael S. Ruf

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

We develop an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formalism to solve for the conservative dynamics of binary systems in gravity via Post-Minkowskian (PM) scattering data. Our framework combines a systematic EFT approach to compute the deflection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Gregor Kälin , Rafael A. Porto

Gravitational wave observatories targeted for compact binary coalescence, such as LIGO and VIRGO, require various theoretical inputs for their efficient detection. One of such inputs are analytical description of binary dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Jung-Wook Kim

Supergravity theories with non-minimal K\"ahler potentials are characterized by a non-trivial field space manifold with corresponding non-trivial kinetic terms. The scattering amplitudes in these theories can be calculated at fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-14 Emilian Dudas , Tony Gherghetta , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

In this work, we develop an updated model for pion-nucleus scattering in the framework of the distorted wave impulse approximation in momentum space. We construct the second-order pion-nucleus potential, which involves analysis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-27 Viacheslav Tsaran , Marc Vanderhaeghen

This work deals with the theory of a quantized spin-2 field in the framework of causal perturbation theory. It is divided into two parts. In the first part we analyze the gauge structure of a massless self-interacting quantum tensor field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Wellmann

Within an effective field theory method to general relativity, we calculate the fifth-order post--Newtonian (5 PN) Hamiltonian dynamics also for the tail terms, extending earlier work on the potential contributions, working in harmonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-10 J. Blümlein , A. Maier , P. Marquard , G. Schäfer