Following up on our recent study, we consider the regime of graviton masses and gravitational wave propagation distances at which decoherence of the wave packets plays a major role for phenomenology. This regime is of particular interest, as it can lead to very striking phenomena of echo events in the gravitational waves coming from coalescence events. The power of the experimental search in this case lies in the fact that it becomes sensitive to a large range of graviton masses, while not relying on a specific production mechanism. We are thus able to place new relevant limits on the parameter space of the graviton mixing angle.

Decoherence of gravitational wave oscillations in bigravity

MAX, Kevin
;
SMIRNOV, Juri
2018

Abstract

Following up on our recent study, we consider the regime of graviton masses and gravitational wave propagation distances at which decoherence of the wave packets plays a major role for phenomenology. This regime is of particular interest, as it can lead to very striking phenomena of echo events in the gravitational waves coming from coalescence events. The power of the experimental search in this case lies in the fact that it becomes sensitive to a large range of graviton masses, while not relying on a specific production mechanism. We are thus able to place new relevant limits on the parameter space of the graviton mixing angle.
2018
Settore FIS/02 - Fisica Teorica, Modelli e Metodi Matematici
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; astro-ph.CO; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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