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Classical Gravitational Spinning-Spinless Scattering at O(G2S)

Rafael Aoude, Kays Haddad, and Andreas Helset
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 141102 – Published 29 September 2022

Abstract

Making use of the recently derived, all-spin, opposite-helicity Compton amplitude, we calculate the classical gravitational scattering amplitude for one spinning and one spinless object at O(G2) and all orders in spin. By construction, this amplitude exhibits the spin structure that has been conjectured to describe Kerr black holes. This spin structure alone is not enough to fix all deformations of the Compton amplitude by contact terms, but when combined with considerations of the ultrarelativistic limit we can uniquely assign values to the parameters remaining in the even-in-spin sector. Once these parameters are determined, much of the spin dependence of the amplitude resums into hypergeometric functions. Finally, we derive the eikonal phase for aligned-angular-momentum scattering.

  • Received 16 May 2022
  • Revised 22 July 2022
  • Accepted 15 September 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.141102

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

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Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Particles & FieldsGravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Rafael Aoude1,*, Kays Haddad2,3,†, and Andreas Helset4,‡

  • 1Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden
  • 3Nordita, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Hannes Alfvéns väg 12, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
  • 4Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

  • *Corresponding author. rafael.aoude@uclouvain.be
  • Corresponding author. kays.haddad@physics.uu.se
  • Corresponding author. ahelset@caltech.edu

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Vol. 129, Iss. 14 — 30 September 2022

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