Journal of High Energy Physics (Jun 2023)

Classical spin gravitational Compton scattering

  • N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Marcos Skowronek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2023)170
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 6
pp. 1 – 22

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Abstract We introduce a novel bootstrap method for heavy-mass effective field theory classical Compton scattering amplitudes involving two massless particles and two arbitrary-spin infinite-mass limit particles. Using a suitable ansatz, we deduce new and explicit classical spin results for gluon four and five-point infinite mass processes that exhibit a certain exponentiated three-point tree-level factorizations and feature no spurious poles. We discuss the generalization of our bootstrap to higher multiplicities and summarize future potential applications.

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