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Gustav Uhre Jakobsen1,2, Gustav Mogull1,2, Jan Plefka1
1Institut für Physik und IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Zum Großen Windkanal 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
We compute the radiation reacted momentum impulse Δp_{i}^{μ}, spin kick ΔS_{i}^{μ}, and scattering angle θ between two scattered spinning massive bodies (black holes or neutron stars) using the N=1 supersymmetric worldline quantum field theory formalism up to fourth post-Minkowskian (4PM) order. Our calculation confirms the state-of-the-art nonspinning results, and extends them to include spin-orbit effects. Advanced multiloop Feynman integral technology including differential equations and the method of regions are applied and extended to deal with the retarded propagators arising in a causal description of the scattering dynamics. From these results we determine a complete set of radiative fluxes at subleading PM order: the 4PM radiated four-momentum and, via linear response, the 3PM radiated angular momentum, both again including spin-orbit effects.
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