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.

arXiv commentProceedings of Les Houches 2006. LaTeX, 44 pages, 10 figures

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• Effective Field Theories of Post-Newtonian Gravity: A comprehensive review
• Essentials of Blackfold Dynamics
• Next to Leading Order Spin(1)Spin(1) Effects in the Motion of Inspiralling Compact Binaries
• Gravitational radiative corrections from effective field theory
• Conservative Dynamics of Binary Systems at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order in the Large-eccentricity Expansion
• Breakdown of Semiclassical Methods in de Sitter Space
• Spinning-black-hole scattering and the test-black-hole limit at second post-Minkowskian order
• Next to leading order spin-orbit effects in the motion of inspiralling compact binaries
• Conservative dynamics of binary systems to fourth Post-Newtonian order in the EFT approach II: Renormalized Lagrangian
• Effective field theory approach to the gravitational two-body dynamics, at fourth post-Newtonian order and quintic in the Newton constant
• The tail effect in gravitational radiation-reaction: time non-locality and renormalization group evolution
• Conservative dynamics of binary systems to fourth Post-Newtonian order in the EFT approach I: Regularized Lagrangian
• Gravitational Bremsstrahlung in the Post-Minkowskian Effective Field Theory
• The Tune of Love and the Nature(ness) of Spacetime
• Effective field theory methods to model compact binaries
• Next-to-leading order gravitational spin-orbit coupling in an effective field theory approach
• Binary dynamics from spin1-spin2 coupling at fourth post-Newtonian order
• Dissipative effects in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation
• Next-to-leading order gravitational spin1-spin2 coupling with Kaluza-Klein reduction
• The dynamics of the gravitational two-body problem at fourth post-Newtonian order and at quadratic order in the Newton constant
• Spin induced multipole moments for the gravitational wave amplitude from binary inspirals to 2.5 Post-Newtonian order
• Vainshtein Mechanism in Binary Pulsars
• Compton Black-Hole Scattering for $s\le 5/2$
• Next-to-next-to-leading order gravitational spin-squared potential via the effective field theory for spinning objects in the post-Newtonian scheme
• Classical Effective Field Theory and Caged Black Holes
• On the Apparent Ambiguities in the Post-Newtonian Expansion for Binary Systems
• The fifth-order post-Newtonian Hamiltonian dynamics of two-body systems from an effective field theory approach: potential contributions
• Exploring New Physics Frontiers Through Numerical Relativity
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• 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
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• Spin-orbit effects for compact binaries in scalar-tensor gravity
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• Post-Newtonian templates for gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals
• An action for reaction in general dimension
• Effective two-body approach to the hierarchical three-body problem: quadrupole to 1PN
• Caged black hole thermodynamics: Charge, the extremal limit, and finite size effects
• Next-to-leading order spin-orbit effects in the equations of motion, energy loss and phase evolution of binaries of compact bodies in the effective field theory approach
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• The Delocalized Effective Degrees of Freedom of a Black Hole at Low Frequencies
• Detweiler's redshift invariant for extended bodies orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole
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• Classical Effective Field Theory for Weak Ultra Relativistic Scattering
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