Scattering Amplitudes, the Tail Effect, and Conservative Binary Dynamics at O(G^{4}).
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Apr 2022
22 Apr 2022
Historique:
received:
21
12
2021
accepted:
26
01
2022
entrez:
6
5
2022
pubmed:
7
5
2022
medline:
7
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We complete the calculation of conservative two-body scattering dynamics at fourth post-Minkowskian order, i.e., O(G^{4}) and all orders in velocity, including radiative contributions corresponding to the tail effect in general relativity. As in previous calculations, we harness powerful tools from the modern scattering amplitudes program including generalized unitarity, the double copy, and advanced multiloop integration methods, in combination with effective field theory. The classical amplitude involves complete elliptic integrals, and polylogarithms with up to transcendental weight 2. Using the amplitude-action relation, we obtain the radial action directly from the amplitude, and match the known overlapping terms in the post-Newtonian expansion.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35522489
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.161103
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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