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We calculate the inelastic $2\to3$ one-loop amplitude for the scattering of two point-like, spinless objects with generic masses involving the additional emission of a single graviton. We focus on the near-forward, or classical, limit. Our…

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Within the context of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to gravitational dynamics, we compute the Hamiltonian, source quadrupole moment, and gravitational-wave energy flux for (non-spinning) inspiralling compact binaries at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-27 Loris Amalberti , Zixin Yang , Rafael A. Porto

We describe the computation of post-Minkowskian Hamiltonians in General Relativity from scattering amplitudes. Using a relativistic Lippmann-Schwinger equation, we relate perturbative amplitudes of massive scalars coupled to gravity to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Andrea Cristofoli , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Pierre Vanhove

We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion. We use the scattering-amplitudes-based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Goncalves , Carlo Heissenberg , Julio Parra-Martinez

Gravitational observables for binary systems exhibit a simple polynomial dependence on the masses $m_1$, $m_2$ of the two scattering objects when they are written in terms of the appropriate kinematic variables in the post-Minkowskian (PM)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

Using $\mathcal N=8$ supergravity as a theoretical laboratory, we extract the 3PM gravitational eikonal for two colliding massive scalars from the classical limit of the corresponding elastic two-loop amplitude. We employ the eikonal phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano

We revisit the amplitude-based derivation of gravitational waveform for the scattering of two scalar black holes at subleading post-Minkowskian (PM) order. We take an eikonal-inspired approach to the two-massive-particle cut needed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Alessandro Georgoudis , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

We combine tools from effective field theory and generalized unitarity to construct a map between on-shell scattering amplitudes and the classical potential for interacting spinless particles. For general relativity, we obtain analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-31 Clifford Cheung , Ira Z. Rothstein , Mikhail P. Solon

Using a heavy-mass effective field theory (HEFT), we study gravitational-wave emission in the scattering of two spinless black holes or neutron stars of arbitrary masses at next-to-leading order in the Post-Minkowskian expansion. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Gang Chen , Stefano De Angelis , Joshua Gowdy , Gabriele Travaglini

We revisit the quantum-amplitude-based derivation of the gravitational waveform emitted by the scattering of two spinless massive bodies at the third order in Newton's constant, $h \sim G+G^2+G^3$ (one-loop level), and correspondingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Stefano De Angelis , Andrea Geralico , Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 David Trestini

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , David Trestini

We compute the energy flux of the gravitational waves radiated by a particle of mass $\m$ in circular orbits around a rotating black hole of mass $M$ up to the 11th post-Newtonian order (11PN), i.e. $v^{22}$ beyond the leading Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-27 Ryuichi Fujita

We demonstrate the universality of the gravitational classical deflection angle of massless particles through O(G^3) by studying the high-energy limit of full two-loop four-graviton scattering amplitudes in pure Einstein gravity as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Zvi Bern , Harald Ita , Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf

We find a self-consistent pp-gravitational shock wave solution to the semiclassical Einstein equations resulting from the $1/N$ approach to the effective action. We model the renormalized matter stress-energy-momentum tensor by $N$ massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Carlos O. Lousto , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

Using the Teukolsky and Sasaki-Nakamura equations for the gravitational perturbation of the Kerr spacetime, we calculate the post-Newtonian expansion of the energy and angular momentum luminosities of gravitational waves from a test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Masaru Shibata , Misao Sasaki , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

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

We present our 3.5PN computation of the (2,2) mode of the gravitational wave amplitude emitted by compact binaries, on quasi-circular orbits and in the absence of spins. We use the multipolar post-Newtonian wave generation formalism,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer

The precise knowledge of the gravitational phase evolution of compact binaries is crucial to the data analysis for gravitational waves. Until recently, it was known analytically (for non-spinning systems) up to the 3.5 post-Newtonian (PN)…

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