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hep-ph2026

Three-Loop QCD Corrections to Scattering Amplitudes of a Higgs Boson and Three Partons

Xin Guan, Bernhard Mistlberger, Michael S. Ruf

We present helicity amplitudes at three loops in the heavy-top quark effective theory of QCD for the scattering of a Higgs boson and three light partons with full-color dependence.…

hep-ph2026

Two-loop leading-color QCD corrections for Higgs plus two-jet production in the heavy-top limit

Giuseppe De Laurentis, Harald Ita, Viktor Kuschke +2

We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs-boson production in association with two jets through gluon fusion in the heavy-top effective theory. We provide ana…

hep-th2026

Classical Gravitational Scattering from the Ultraviolet and the Absence of Calabi-Yau Integrals in the Conservative Sector at

Zvi Bern, Avery Jackman, Gareth Mansfield +1

We explain why Calabi-Yau and complete elliptic integrals do not contribute to conservative observables at fifth post-Minkowskian order, despite appearing in intermediate steps. At…

hep-th2025

Second-order self-force potential-region binary dynamics at in supergravity

Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban +4

We compute the potential-graviton contributions to the conservative scattering angle of two non-spinning bodies in maximal supergravity at fifth order in Newton's constant, includi…

hep-th2024

Global Bases for Nonplanar Loop Integrands, Generalized Unitarity, and the Double Copy to All Loop Orders

Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban +2

We introduce a constructive method for defining a global loop-integrand basis for scattering amplitudes, encompassing both planar and nonplanar contributions. Our approach utilizes…

hep-th2024★ 22 cited

Spinning Black Hole Scattering at : Casimir Terms, Radial Action and Hidden Symmetry

Dogan Akpinar, Fernando Febres Cordero, Manfred Kraus +2

We resolve subtleties in calculating the post-Minkowskian dynamics of binary systems, as a spin expansion, from massive scattering amplitudes of fixed finite spin. In particular, t…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Amplitudes, Supersymmetric Black Hole Scattering at , and Loop Integration

Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban +4

We compute the potential-graviton contribution to the scattering amplitude, the radial action, and the scattering angle of two extremal black holes in N = 8 supergravity at the fif…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

Absorptive Effects and Classical Black Hole Scattering

Callum R. T. Jones, Michael S. Ruf

We describe an approach to incorporating the physical effects of the absorption of energy by the event horizon of black holes in the scattering amplitudes based post-Minkowskian, p…

hep-th2023★ 2 cited

Conservative binary dynamics at order in electrodynamics

Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban +4

We compute the potential-photon contributions to the classical relativistic scattering angle of two charged non-spinning bodies in electrodynamics through fifth order in the coupli…

hep-th2023★ 49 cited

Comparison of post-Minkowskian and self-force expansions: Scattering in a scalar charge toy model

Leor Barack, Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann +8

We compare numerical self-force results and analytical fourth-order post-Minkowskian (PM) calculations for hyperbolic-type scattering of a point-like particle carrying a scalar cha…

hep-th2022★ 87 cited

Conservative Binary Dynamics with a Spinning Black Hole at from Scattering Amplitudes

Fernando Febres Cordero, Manfred Kraus, Guanda Lin +2

We compute the conservative two-body Hamiltonian of a compact binary system with a spinning black hole through to all orders in velocity, including linear and qu…

hep-th2021★ 205 cited

Scattering Amplitudes, the Tail Effect, and Conservative Binary Dynamics at

Zvi Bern, Julio Parra-Martinez, Radu Roiban +4

We complete the calculation of conservative two-body scattering dynamics at fourth post-Minkowskian order, i.e. and all orders in velocity, including radiative contributio…

hep-th2021★ 17 cited

Radiative Classical Gravitational Observables at from Scattering Amplitudes

Enrico Herrmann, Julio Parra-Martinez, Michael S. Ruf +1

We compute classical gravitational observables for the scattering of two spinless black holes in general relativity and supergravity in the formalism of Kosower,…

hep-th2021★ 162 cited

Gravitational Bremsstrahlung from Reverse Unitarity

Enrico Herrmann, Julio Parra-Martinez, Michael S. Ruf +1

We compute the total radiated momentum carried by gravitational waves during the scattering of two spinless black holes at the lowest order in Newton's constant, ,…

hep-th2021★ 247 cited

Scattering Amplitudes and Conservative Binary Dynamics at

Zvi Bern, Julio Parra-Martinez, Radu Roiban +4

Using scattering amplitudes, we obtain the potential contributions to conservative binary dynamics in general relativity at fourth post-Minkowskian order, . As in pr…

hep-ph2020★ 47 cited

Caravel: A C++ Framework for the Computation of Multi-Loop Amplitudes with Numerical Unitarity

S. Abreu, J. Dormans, F. Febres Cordero +6

We present the first public version of Caravel, a C++17 framework for the computation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, based on the numerical unitarity…

hep-th2020★ 177 cited

Extremal black hole scattering at O(G^3): graviton dominance, eikonal exponentiation, and differential equations

Julio Parra-Martinez, Michael S. Ruf, Mao Zeng

We use supergravity as a toy model for understanding the dynamics of black hole binary systems via the scattering amplitudes approach. We compute the conservative pa…

hep-th2020★ 124 cited

Universality in the classical limit of massless gravitational scattering

Zvi Bern, Harald Ita, Julio Parra-Martinez +1

We demonstrate the universality of the gravitational classical deflection angle of massless particles through O(G^3) by studying the high-energy limit of full two-loop four-gravito…

hep-th2020★ 37 cited

The Two-Loop Four-Graviton Scattering Amplitudes

S. Abreu, F. Febres Cordero, H. Ita +4

We present the analytic form of the two-loop four-graviton scattering amplitudes in Einstein gravity. To remove ultraviolet divergences we include counterterms quadratic and cubic…

hep-th2018★ 11 cited

Quantum effective action for degenerate vector field theories

Michael S. Ruf, Christian F. Steinwachs

We calculate the divergent part of the one-loop effective action in curved spacetime for a particular class of second-order vector field operators with a degenerate principal part.…

hep-th2018★ 24 cited

Renormalization of generalized vector field models in curved spacetime

Michael S. Ruf, Christian F. Steinwachs

We calculate the one-loop divergences for different vector field models in curved spacetime. We introduce a classification scheme based on their degeneracy structure, which encompa…

gr-qc2017★ 68 cited

Quantum equivalence of gravity and scalar-tensor theories

Michael S. Ruf, Christian F. Steinwachs

We investigate whether the classical equivalence of gravity and its formulation as scalar-tensor theory still holds at the quantum level. We explicitly compare the correspon…

gr-qc2017★ 34 cited

One-loop divergences for gravity

Michael S. Ruf, Christian F. Steinwachs

We calculate the divergent part of the one-loop effective action for gravity on an arbitrary background manifold. Our result generalizes previous results for quantum correct…