From Scattering Amplitudes to Classical Physics: Universality, Double Copy and Soft Theorems

Abstract

We introduce a covariant Multipole Expansion for the scattering of a massive particle emitting photons or gravitons in $D$ dimensions. We find that these amplitudes exhibit very powerful features such as universality, soft exponentiation, orbit and spin multipoles, etc. Using $\mathrm{SO}(D)$ representation theory we show that the photon and graviton amplitudes are related via a new double copy procedure for massive spinning states. All these features are then promoted to properties of the observables arising in the classical version of such theories. Focusing on radiation, we provide two main applications: 1) An exponential Soft Theorem relating conservative effects and gravitational radiation to all orders in $\omega$; whose leading order directly leads to the $D=4$ Memory Effect. 2) A classical double copy to evaluate gravitational radiation from QED Bremsstrahlung, matching previous classical computations and extending them to spin-quadrupole order.

5+2 pages. v2: Minor corrections, references added. Fixed transcription error in eq 30

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