Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Journal of High Energy Physics
Amplitudes for Hawking radiation
- 1The University of Edinburgh
- 2Université Paris-Saclay
Abstract
A bstract : We obtain the Hawking spectrum by exponentiating a series of Feynman diagrams describing a scalar field scattering through a collapse background. Our approach is rooted in semiclassical methods of scattering amplitudes which have recently been developed for application to gravitational-wave physics. The diagrams we encounter do not compute a standard amplitude, but rather an in-in generalisation of an amplitude which is closely connected to the Bogoliubov coefficients. We also compute the subdominant one-loop correction in our perturbative approach, analogous to the triangle correction to Schwarzschild scattering. This term can be interpreted as a finite-size correction sensitive to the radius of the black hole.
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BibTeX
@article{aoude2026amplitudes,
title = {{Amplitudes for Hawking radiation}},
author = {Rafael Aoude and Donal O’Connell and Matteo Sergola},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1007/jhep10(2026)009},
url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)009},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Amplitudes for Hawking radiation
AU - Rafael Aoude
AU - Donal O’Connell
AU - Matteo Sergola
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
DO - 10.1007/jhep10(2026)009
UR - https://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)009
AB - A bstract : We obtain the Hawking spectrum by exponentiating a series of Feynman diagrams describing a scalar field scattering through a collapse background. Our approach is rooted in semiclassical methods of scattering amplitudes which have recently been developed for application to gravitational-wave physics. The diagrams we encounter do not compute a standard amplitude, but rather an in-in generalisation of an amplitude which is closely connected to the Bogoliubov coefficients. We also compute the subdominant one-loop correction in our perturbative approach, analogous to the triangle correction to Schwarzschild scattering. This term can be interpreted as a finite-size correction sensitive to the radius of the black hole.
SN - 1029-8479
ER -