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
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

IM

Pagination

161103

Auteurs

Zvi Bern (Z)

Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Julio Parra-Martinez (J)

Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.

Radu Roiban (R)

Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.

Michael S Ruf (MS)

Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Chia-Hsien Shen (CH)

Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0319, USA.

Mikhail P Solon (MP)

Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Mao Zeng (M)

Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.

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