Next-to-eikonal corrected double graviton dressing and gravitational wave observables at O G 2 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({G}^2\right) $$

Autor: Karan Fernandes, Feng-Li Lin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 6, Pp 1-47 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2024)015
Popis: Abstract Following a recent proposal to describe inelastic eikonal scattering processes in terms of gravitationally dressed elastic eikonal amplitudes, we motivate a collinear double graviton dressing and investigate its properties. This is derived from a generalized Wilson line operator in the worldline formalism by integrating over fluctuations of the eikonal trajectories of external particles in gravitationally interacting theories. The dressing can be expressed as a product of exponential terms — a coherent piece with contributions to all odd orders in the gravitational coupling constant and a term quadratic in graviton modes, with the former providing classical gravitational wave observables. In particular, the coherent dressing involves O κ 3 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({\kappa}^3\right) $$ subleading double graviton corrections to the Weinberg soft factor. We use this dressing to derive expressions for the waveform, radiative momentum spectrum and angular momentum. In a limiting case of the waveform, we derive the nonlinear memory effect resulting from the emission of nearly soft gravitons from a scattering process.
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