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We compute the radiation reacted momentum impulse $\Delta p_i^\mu$, spin kick $\Delta S_i^\mu$, and scattering angle $\theta$ between two scattered spinning massive bodies (black holes or neutron stars) using the $\mathcal{N}=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-23 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer

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

In this paper, we study the inverse scattering of massive charged Dirac fields in the exterior region of (de Sitter)-Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes. First we obtain a precise high-energy asymptotic expansion of the diagonal elements of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 Thierry Daudé , François Nicoleau

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

The scattering cross sections of the unpolarized electromagnetic and gravitational waves are shown to be equal for the extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole using $N=2$ supergravity. The conversion cross sections between the unpolarized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 Luís C. B. Crispino , Sam R. Dolan , Atsushi Higuchi , Ednilton S. de Oliveira

We construct a scattering theory for the linearised Einstein equations on a Schwarzschild background in a double null gauge. We build on the results of Part I \cite{Mas20}, where we used the energy conservation enjoyed by the Regge--Wheeler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Hamed Masaood

The advent of long-term stability in numerical relativity has yielded a windfall of answers to long-standing questions regarding the dynamics of space-time, matter, and electromagnetic fields in the strong-field regime of black-hole binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Sean T. McWilliams

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 Effective One-Body formalism of the gravitational two-body problem in general relativity is reconsidered in the light of recent scattering amplitude calculations. Based on the kinematic relationship between momenta and the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Poul H. Damgaard , Pierre Vanhove

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

Exploiting simple yet remarkable properties of relativistic gravitational scattering, we use first-order self-force (linear-in-mass-ratio) results to obtain arbitrary-mass-ratio results for the complete third-subleading post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We calculate the probability amplitude for tree-level elastic electron-muon scattering in Minkowski spacetime with carefully prepared initial and final wave packets. The obtained nonzero amplitude implies a nonvanishing probability for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 V. A. Emelyanov , F. R. Klinkhamer

We present results of numerical simulations of sequences of binary-single scattering events of black holes in dense stellar environments. The simulations cover a wide range of mass ratios from equal mass objects to 1000:10:10 solar masses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kayhan Gultekin , M. Coleman Miller , Douglas P. Hamilton

We construct a scattering theory for the spin $\pm2$ Teukolsky equations on the exterior of the Schwarzschild spacetime, as a first step towards developing a scattering theory for the linearised Einstein equations in double null gauge. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Hamed Masaood

This thesis develops a unified framework that reconstructs the full classical content of General Relativity from the classical limit of quantum scattering amplitudes. By interpreting the analytic structure of amplitudes as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Claudio Gambino

Rapidly-rotating black-hole spacetimes outside general relativity are key to many tests of Einstein's theory. We here develop an efficient spectral method to represent such spacetimes analytically, in closed-form, and to high accuracy, in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam , Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Nicolás Yunes

We derive an analytic phenomenological expression that predicts the final mass of the black-hole remnant resulting from the merger of a generic binary system of black holes on quasi-circular orbits. Besides recovering the correct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-17 Enrico Barausse , Viktoriya Morozova , Luciano Rezzolla

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

For a Schwarzchild black hole of mass $M$, we consider a test particle falling from rest at infinity and becoming trapped, at late time, on the unstable circular orbit of radius $r=4GM/c^2$. When the particle is endowed with a small mass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Leor Barack , Marta Colleoni , Thibault Damour , Soichiro Isoyama , Norichika Sago

Using the spinning, supersymmetric Worldline Quantum Field Theory formalism we compute the momentum impulse and spin kick from a scattering of two spinning black holes or neutron stars up to quadratic order in spin at third post-Minkowskian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull