Classical scattering from heavy spinning amplitudes
Classical scattering from heavy spinning amplitudes
- Event time: 2:00pm until 3:00pm
- Event date: 7th December 2022
- Speaker: Rafael Aoude
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
A recent burst in gravitational wave astronomy has motivated a new perspective on the classical two-body problem by on-shell methods rooted in quantum field theory. Using these methods and the heavy-mass limit, we derive the relevant amplitudes for the scattering of spinning black holes at the first post-Minkowskian (PM) order. In order to push this scattering to the second PM order, we derive Compton amplitudes free from unphysical poles in the classical limit. The cured amplitudes are subject to deformations by contact terms, the vast majority of whose contributions we can fix by imposing a relation between spin structures motivated by lower spin multipoles of black hole scattering. This gravitational Compton amplitude allows us to push the 2PM scattering to any order in the spin vectors of both objects. We present a closed-form, all-spin expression of the 2PM amplitude between a spinning body and a non-spinning black hole.
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The Particle Physics Theory seminar is a weekly series of talks reflecting the diverse interests of the group. Topics include analytic and numerical calculations based on the Standard Model of elementary particle physics, theories exploring new physics, as well as more formal developments in gauge theories and gravity..