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

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hep-th2026

Five-point spinor-helicity Compton amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity

Raikhik Das, Mao Zeng

We calculate the five-point tree-level Compton amplitudes for minimally coupled spinning matter in gauge theory and gravity in the massive spinor-helicity formalism, using BCFW rec…

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-ph2023★ 11 cited

Feynman Integrals from Positivity Constraints

Mao Zeng

We explore inequality constraints as a new tool for numerically evaluating Feynman integrals. A convergent Feynman integral is non-negative if the integrand is non-negative in eith…

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-th2022★ 17 cited

Snowmass White Paper: Gravitational Waves and Scattering Amplitudes

Alessandra Buonanno, Mohammed Khalil, Donal O'Connell +3

We review recent progress and future prospects for harnessing powerful tools from theoretical high-energy physics, such as scattering amplitudes and effective field theory, to deve…

hep-th2021★ 46 cited

Scalar QED as a toy model for higher-order effects in classical gravitational scattering

Zvi Bern, Juan Pablo Gatica, Enrico Herrmann +2

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) serves as a useful toy model for classical observables in gravitational two-body systems with reduced complexity due to the linearity of QED. We inves…

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★ 32 cited

Locally finite two-loop amplitudes for off-shell multi-photon production in electron-positron annihilation

Charalampos Anastasiou, Rayan Haindl, George Sterman +2

We study the singularity structure of two-loop QED amplitudes for the production of multiple off-shell photons in massless electron-positron annihilation and develop counterterms t…

hep-ph2020★ 87 cited

Two-Loop Integrals for Planar Five-Point One-Mass Processes

S. Abreu, H. Ita, F. Moriello +3

We present the computation of a full set of planar five-point two-loop master integrals with one external mass. These integrals are an important ingredient for two-loop scattering…

hep-th2020★ 228 cited

Spinning Black Hole Binary Dynamics, Scattering Amplitudes and Effective Field Theory

Zvi Bern, Andres Luna, Radu Roiban +2

We describe a systematic framework for finding the conservative potential of compact binary systems with spin based on scattering amplitudes of particles of arbitrary spin and effe…

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-th2019★ 452 cited

Black Hole Binary Dynamics from the Double Copy and Effective Theory

Zvi Bern, Clifford Cheung, Radu Roiban +3

We describe a systematic framework for computing the conservative potential of a compact binary system using modern tools from scattering amplitudes and effective field theory. Our…

hep-th2019★ 538 cited

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

Zvi Bern, Clifford Cheung, Radu Roiban +3

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the mod…

hep-th2019★ 76 cited

The two-loop five-point amplitude in supergravity

Samuel Abreu, Lance J. Dixon, Enrico Herrmann +2

We compute the symbol of the two-loop five-point amplitude in supergravity. We write an ansatz for the amplitude whose rational prefactors are based on not only 4-di…

hep-th2018★ 137 cited

The two-loop five-point amplitude in super-Yang-Mills theory

Samuel Abreu, Lance J. Dixon, Enrico Herrmann +2

We compute the symbol of the two-loop five-point scattering amplitude in = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. This requires constructing…

hep-ph2018★ 3 cited

Five-Point Two-Loop Amplitudes from Numerical Unitarity

Samuel Abreu, Fernando Febres Cordero, Harald Ita +2

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading…

hep-th2018★ 1 cited

Two-loop D-dimensional unitarity and dual conformal symmetry

Zvi Bern, Michael Enciso, Harald Ita +1

In this talk we show that dual conformal symmetry has unexpected applications to Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization. Outside dimensions, the symmetry is anomalous,…

hep-th2018★ 72 cited

Differential equations from unitarity cuts: nonplanar hexa-box integrals

Samuel Abreu, Ben Page, Mao Zeng

We compute -factorized differential equations for all dimensionally-regularized integrals of the nonplanar hexa-box topology, which contribute for instance to 2-loop 5-point QCD…

hep-th2018★ 35 cited

Dual Conformal Structure Beyond the Planar Limit

Zvi Bern, Michael Enciso, Chia-Hsien Shen +1

The planar scattering amplitudes of super-Yang--Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as…

hep-th2018★ 149 cited

Ultraviolet Properties of N = 8 Supergravity at Five Loops

Zvi Bern, John Joseph Carrasco, Wei-Ming Chen +5

We use the recently developed generalized double-copy construction to obtain an improved representation of the five-loop four-point integrand of supergravity whose leading…