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Explicit Gravity Amplitudes on Self-Dual Backgrounds - Lionel Mason (Oxford)

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics via YouTube

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This course aims to explore the precision modeling of gravitational-wave signals for interpreting gravitational-wave events and searching for new physics embedded in these signals. The course covers topics such as classical relativity, effective field theory, and scattering amplitudes. Participants will discuss the needs of future gravitational-wave experiments, identify theoretical challenges, highlight recent advances in gravitational wave modeling, and explore tools and techniques from classical and quantum field theory. The intended audience includes experts from the fields of classical relativity, effective field theory, and scattering amplitudes.

Syllabus

Intro
Backgrounds not flat
Scattering amplitude
Expectations for selfdual backgrounds
mhv generating functionals
pistorial
twisted space
spacetime reconstruction
sigma model
onshell action
perturbations
examples
Questions

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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

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