McGill.CA / Science / Department of Physics

Theory HEP Seminar

Scattering Amplitudes for Spinning Black Holes

Alfredo Guevara

Perimeter Institute/University of Waterloo

Motivated by the advent of LIGO measurements, it has been observed that scattering amplitudes can be used to derive perturbative observables appearing in the collision of two black holes. In this talk we will review recent progress in obtaining such quantities for the phenomenologically relevant setup of spinning black holes, focusing on radiation and the scattering holonomy. The interplay of these objects with soft theorems will be exposed.

Wednesday, April 24th 2019, 12:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326