Detection of gravitational waves in circular particle accelerators [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00529


Here we calculate the effects of astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs) on the travel times of proton bunch test masses in circular particle accelerators. We show that a high-precision proton bunch time-tagging detector could turn a circular particle accelerator facility into a GW observatory sensitive to millihertz (mHz) GWs. We comment on sources of noise and the technological feasibility of ultrafast single photon detectors by conducting a case study of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

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S. Rao, M. Brüggen and J. Liske
Wed, 2 Dec 20
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Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures. This manuscript has been accepted for publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review D