Published October 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Black hole binary dynamics from the double copy and effective theory

  • 1. UCLA, Mani L. Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy (United States)
  • 2. California Institute of Technology, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics (United States)
  • 3. Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (United States)
  • 4. ETH Zürich, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Switzerland)

Description

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 approach combines methods for integration and matching adapted from effective field theory, generalized unitarity, and the double-copy construction, which relates gravity integrands to simpler gauge-theory expressions. With these methods we derive the third post-Minkowskian correction to the conservative two-body Hamiltonian for spinless black holes. We describe in some detail various checks of our integration methods and the resulting Hamiltonian.

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 1-135
ISSN
1029-8479

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