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- Title
Absorptive effects and classical black hole scattering.
- Authors
Jones, Callum R. T.; Ruf, Michael S.
- Abstract
We describe an approach to incorporating the physical effects of the absorption of energy by the event horizon of black holes in the scattering amplitudes based post-Minkowskian, point-particle effective description. Absorptive dynamics are incorporated in a model-independent way by coupling the usual point-particle description to an invisible sector of gapless internal degrees-of-freedom. The leading order dynamics of this sector are encoded in the low-energy expansion of a spectral density function obtained by matching an absorption cross section in the ultraviolet description. This information is then recycled using the scattering amplitudes based Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell in-in formalism to calculate the leading absorptive contribution to the impulse and change in rest mass of a Schwarzschild black hole scattering with a second compact body sourcing a massless scalar, electromagnetic or gravitational field. The results obtained are in complete agreement with previous worldline Schwinger-Keldysh calculations and provide an alternative on-shell scattering amplitudes approach to incorporating horizon absorption effects in the gravitational two-body problem.
- Subjects
BLACK holes; ABSORPTION cross sections; SCATTERING amplitude (Physics); TWO-body problem (Physics); SCHWARZSCHILD black holes; GRAVITATIONAL fields; HORIZON
- Publication
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024, Vol 2024, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1126-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/JHEP03(2024)015