Les Houches Lectures on Effective Field Theories and Gravitational Radiation

Abstract

These lectures give an overview of the uses of effective field theories in describing gravitational radiation sources for LIGO or LISA. The first lecture reviews some of the standard ideas of effective field theory (decoupling, matching, power counting) mostly in the context of a simple toy model. The second lecture sets up the problem of calculating gravitational wave emission from non-relativistic binary stars by constructing a tower of effective theories that separately describe each scale in the problem: the internal size of each binary constituent, the orbital separation, and the wavelength of radiated gravitons.

Proceedings of Les Houches 2006. LaTeX, 44 pages, 10 figures

References in corpus (2)

• TASI Lectures on Effective Field Theories
• Towers of Gravitational Theories

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• Gravitational Bremsstrahlung in the Post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory
• The Tune of Love and the Nature(ness) of Spacetime
• Next-to-leading order gravitational spin-orbit coupling in an effective field theory approach
• The dynamics of the gravitational two-body problem at fourth post-Newtonian order and at quadratic order in the Newton constant
• Vainshtein Mechanism in Binary Pulsars
• Compton Black-Hole Scattering for $s\le 5/2$
• Classical Effective Field Theory and Caged Black Holes
• The fifth-order post-Newtonian Hamiltonian dynamics of two-body systems from an effective field theory approach: potential contributions
• Spin effects on neutron star fundamental-mode dynamical tides: phenomenology and comparison to numerical simulations
• Radiated momentum in the Post-Minkowskian worldline approach via reverse unitarity
• Gravitational radiation from inspiralling compact objects: Spin-spin effects completed at the next-to-leading post-Newtonian order
• From Boundary Data to Bound States III: Radiative Effects
• The 6th Post-Newtonian Potential Terms at $O(G_N^4)$
• Tidal response from scattering and the role of analytic continuation
• Who You Gonna Call? Runaway Ghosts, Higher Derivatives and Time-Dependence in EFTs
• Effective field theory for gravitational radiation in scalar-tensor gravity
• Quadratic-in-spin interactions at fifth post-Newtonian order probe new physics
• Spin-orbit effects for compact binaries in scalar-tensor gravity
• Quantum Hotspots: Mean Fields, Open EFTs, Nonlocality and Decoherence Near Black Holes
• Post-Newtonian templates for gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals
• Effective two-body approach to the hierarchical three-body problem: quadrupole to 1PN
• The Delocalized Effective Degrees of Freedom of a Black Hole at Low Frequencies
• Non-vanishing of tidal Love numbers
• Classical Effective Field Theory for Weak Ultra Relativistic Scattering
• Quantum point particle approximation of spinning black holes and compact stars
• First post-Newtonian correction to gravitational waves produced by compact binaries: How to compute relativistic corrections to gravitational waves using Feynman diagrams
• Calculating the static gravitational two-body potential to fifth post-Newtonian order with Feynman diagrams