Amplitudes, supersymmetric black hole scattering at O G 5 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({G}^5\right) $$ , and loop integration

Abstract

Abstract We compute the potential-graviton contribution to the scattering amplitude, the radial action, and the scattering angle of two extremal black holes in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 8 supergravity at the fifth post-Minkowskian order and to next-to-leading order in a large mass expansion (first self-force order). Properties of classical unitarity cuts allow us to focus on the integration-by-parts reduction of planar integrals, while nonplanar integrals at this order are obtained from the planar ones by straightforward manipulations. We present the solution to the differential equations for all master integrals necessary to evaluate the classical scattering amplitudes of massive scalar particles at this order in all gravitational theories, in particular in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 8 supergravity, and in general relativity. Despite the appearance of higher-weight generalized polylogarithms and elliptic functions in the solution to the differential equation for master integrals, the final supergravity answer is remarkably simple and contains only (harmonic) polylogarithmic functions up to weight 2. The systematic analysis of elliptic integrals discussed here, as well as the particular organization of boundary integrals in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 8 observables are independent of supersymmetry and may have wider applications, including to aspects of collider physics.

Keywords

• Classical Theories of Gravity
• Scattering Amplitudes
• Black Holes
• Effective Field Theories