Multi-loop scattering amplitudes and gravitational binary dynamics

by Mao Zeng

Wednesday 2 Mar 2022, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

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Next-generation gravitational wave detectors require highly precise predictions for the waveforms from inspiraling black holes and neutron stars. We present advances in binary inspiral dynamics by taking classical limits of scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum gravity. The amplitudes are calculated efficiently using modern methods for scattering amplitudes, including double copy and generalized unitarity, and loop integration techniques borrowed from collider physics. Classical physics can be extracted by several complementary approaches, including effective field theory, eikonal exponentiation, and observables in wavepacket scattering. For both conservative and dissipative dynamics of binary systems, we obtain new terms in the post-Minksowskian expansion beyond the best previous results from purely classical methods.

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