6th School of Analytic Computing in High-Energy and Gravitational Theoretical Physics

Reading Material

For lecture notes see the supplementary material of first lecture in the timetable.

• Donal O'Connell: 
  • Amplitudes, Observables, and Classical Scattering (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10950)
  • Waveforms from Amplitudes (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10193)

 

• Leor Barack: 
  • See linked material in timetable for the first lecture
  • Self-force and radiation reaction in general relativity (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10385)
  • Comparison of post-Minkowskian and self-force expansions: Scattering in a scalar charge toy model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09200)
  • Power point ( https://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/activities/rise/slides/barack.pdf )

 

• Mao Zeng: 
  • Calculating scattering amplitudes efficiently
    (https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9601359.pdf)
  • Alternatively, here’s another introduction to spinor helicity
    (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.2414.pdf)
  • Black Hole Binary Dynamics from the Double Copy and Effective Theory (https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01493)
  • Conservative Binary Dynamics with a Spinning Black Hole at O(G^3) from Scattering Amplitudes (https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07357)

 

• Rafael Porto:
  • The Effective Field Theorist's Approach to Gravitational Dynamics (https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04914)
  • From Boundary Data to Bound States (https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03008)
  • Post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory for Conservative Binary Dynamics (https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01184)
  • Radiation-reaction in the Effective Field Theory approach to Post-Minkowskian dynamics (https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00580)
  • Bootstrapping the relativistic two-body problem (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01275)