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We present a framework for systematic computations of scattering amplitudes for gravitational Raman scattering, -- the inelastic scattering of massless fields off compact relativistic objects. We focus on the small-frequency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Yue-Zhou Li , Julio Parra-Martinez , Zihan Zhou

This is the 4-th paper in the series devoted to a systematic study of the problem of mathematically correct formulation of the rules needed to manage an effective field theory. Here we consider the problem of constructing the full set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Vereshagin , V. Vereshagin

The off-mass shell scattering amplitude, satisfying the Bethe-Salpeter equation for spinless particles in Minkowski space with the ladder kernel, is computed for the first time.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-05 V. A. Karmanov , J. Carbonell

We present the first ab initio lattice calculation of neutron-alpha ($n$-$\alpha$) scattering using nuclear lattice effective field theory (NLEFT) with chiral interactions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). Building on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Serdar Elhatisari , Fabian Hildenbrand , Ulf-G. Meißner

We use an effective field theory (EFT) which contains only short-range interactions to study the dependence of a variety of three-nucleon observables on the pion mass. The pion-mass dependence of input quantities in our ``pionless'' EFT is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. -W. Hammer , D. R. Phillips , L. Platter

We present a new chiral expansion scheme for the nucleon-nucleon scattering amplitude which preserves unitarity exactly. Our effective field theory builds on the power counting rules for 2-nucleon reducible diagrams proposed in \cite{lutz}.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-16 M. Lutz

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 compute spin-orbit effects in the equations of motion, binding energy and energy loss of binary systems of compact objects at the next-to-leading order in the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation in the effective field theory (EFT)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Brian A. Pardo , Natália T. Maia

The scattering theory of low-energy (slow) electrons has been developed by Evans and Mills [Phys. Rev. B 5, 4126 (1972)]. The formalism is merely based on the electrostatic Coulomb interaction of the scattering electrons with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-25 Khalil Zakeri , Christophe Berthod

Advanced methods for computing perturbative, quantum-gravitational scattering amplitudes show great promise for improving our knowledge of classical gravitational dynamics. This is especially true in the weak-field and arbitrary-speed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-21 Andrea Antonelli , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Maarten van de Meent , Justin Vines

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

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

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

We present the result of the spin-orbit interaction Hamiltonian for binary systems of rotating compact objects with generic spins, up to NNNLO corrections within the post-Newtonian expansion. The calculation is performed by employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-18 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Raj Patil , Jan Steinhoff

We revisit the connection between relativistic orbital precession, the Laplace-Runge-Lenz symmetry, and the $t$-channel discontinuity of scattering amplitudes. Applying this to scalar-tensor theories of gravity, we compute the conservative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-13 Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville

Using classical electrodynamics we determine the angular dependence of the light intensities radiated in second and third harmonic generation by spherical metal clusters. Forward and backward scattering is analyzed in detail. Also resonance…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dewitz , W. Hubner , K. H. Bennemann

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 compute the potential-graviton contributions to the conservative scattering angle of two non-spinning bodies in maximal supergravity at fifth order in Newton's constant, including second-order self-force effects. Our goal is to tackle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , 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 report a next-to-leading-order (NLO) chiral perturbation theory calculation of the neutron-proton scattering cross section in the ${}^1S_0$ channel using a cut-off regularization. The inclusion of two-pion exchanges in the irreducible…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 C. H. Hyun , T. -S. Park , D. -P. Min