Heavy black hole effective theory

TY - JOUR

T1 - Heavy black hole effective theory

AU - Damgaard, Poul H.

AU - Haddad, Kays

AU - Helset, Andreas

PY - 2019/11/1

Y1 - 2019/11/1

N2 - We formulate an effective field theory describing large mass scalars and fermions minimally coupled to gravity. The operators of this effective field theory are organized in powers of the transfer momentum divided by the mass of the matter field, an expansion which lends itself to the efficient extraction of classical contributions from loop amplitudes in both the post-Newtonian and post-Minkowskian regimes. We use this effective field theory to calculate the classical and leading quantum gravitational scattering amplitude of two heavy spin-1/2 particles at the second post-Minkowskian order.

AB - We formulate an effective field theory describing large mass scalars and fermions minimally coupled to gravity. The operators of this effective field theory are organized in powers of the transfer momentum divided by the mass of the matter field, an expansion which lends itself to the efficient extraction of classical contributions from loop amplitudes in both the post-Newtonian and post-Minkowskian regimes. We use this effective field theory to calculate the classical and leading quantum gravitational scattering amplitude of two heavy spin-1/2 particles at the second post-Minkowskian order.

KW - Black Holes

KW - Classical Theories of Gravity

KW - Effective Field Theories

KW - Scattering Amplitudes

U2 - 10.1007/JHEP11(2019)070

DO - 10.1007/JHEP11(2019)070

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1126-6708

VL - 2019

JO - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

JF - Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

IS - 11

M1 - 070

ER -