CaltechAUTHORS
  A Caltech Library Service

Scattering Amplitudes and the Conservative Hamiltonian for Binary Systems at Third Post-Minkowskian Order

Bern, Zvi and Cheung, Clifford and Roiban, Radu and Shen, Chia-Hsien and Solon, Mikhail P. and Zeng, Mao (2019) Scattering Amplitudes and the Conservative Hamiltonian for Binary Systems at Third Post-Minkowskian Order. Physical Review Letters, 122 (20). Art. No. 201603. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.201603. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190116-120534227

[img] PDF - Published Version
Creative Commons Attribution.

231kB
[img] PDF - Submitted Version
See Usage Policy.

210kB

Use this Persistent URL to link to this item: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190116-120534227

Abstract

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the modern amplitudes program such as generalized unitarity and the double-copy construction, which relates gravity integrands to simpler gauge-theory expressions. Adapting methods for integration and matching from effective field theory, we extract the conservative Hamiltonian for compact spinless binaries at third post-Minkowskian order. The resulting Hamiltonian is in complete agreement with corresponding terms in state-of-the-art expressions at fourth post-Newtonian order as well as the probe limit at all orders in velocity. We also derive the scattering angle at third post-Minkowskian order and find agreement with known results.


Item Type:Article
Related URLs:
URLURL TypeDescription
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.201603DOIArticle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04424arXivDiscussion Paper
ORCID:
AuthorORCID
Shen, Chia-Hsien0000-0002-5138-9971
Zeng, Mao0000-0002-4741-4038
Additional Information:© 2019 Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 28 January 2019; published 24 May 2019. We thank Alessandra Buonanno, Thibault Damour, Michael Enciso, David Kosower, Andrés Luna, Aneesh Manohar, Smadar Naoz, Julio Parra-Martinez, Rafael Porto, Jan Steinhoff, George Sterman, Justin Vines, and Mark Wise for helpful discussions, including comments on the manuscript. In addition, we especially thank Ira Rothstein for his many insightful comments throughout this project. Z. B. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Award No. DE-SC0009937. C. C. is supported by the DOE under Grant No. DE-SC0011632. R. R. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Grant No. DE-SC0013699. C. H. S. is supported by the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics. M. P. S. is supported by the DOE under Grant No. DE-SC0011632 and the McCone Fellowship at the Walter Burke Institute. M. Z. is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Contract No. SNF200021179016 and the European Commission through the ERC Grant pertQCD.
Group:Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
Funders:
Funding AgencyGrant Number
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-SC0009937
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-SC0011632
Department of Energy (DOE)DE-SC0013699
Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical PhysicsUNSPECIFIED
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, CaltechUNSPECIFIED
Swiss National Science FoundationSNF200021-179016
European Research Council (ERC)pertQCD
SCOAP3UNSPECIFIED
Other Numbering System:
Other Numbering System NameOther Numbering System ID
CALT-TH2019-002
Issue or Number:20
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.201603
Record Number:CaltechAUTHORS:20190116-120534227
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190116-120534227
Usage Policy:No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.
ID Code:92324
Collection:CaltechAUTHORS
Deposited By: Joy Painter
Deposited On:16 Jan 2019 21:03
Last Modified:16 Nov 2021 03:49

Repository Staff Only: item control page