Particle physics with gravitational wave detector technology

Englert, Christoph; Hild, Stefan; Spannowsky, Michael

doi:10.1209/0295-5075/123/41001

Particle physics with gravitational wave detector technology

Englert, Christoph; Hild, Stefan; Spannowsky, Michael

Authors

Christoph Englert

Stefan Hild

Professor Michael Spannowsky michael.spannowsky@durham.ac.uk
Director

Abstract

Gravitational wave detector technology provides high-precision measurement apparatuses that, if combined with a modulated particle source, have the potential to measure and constrain particle interactions in a novel way, by measuring the pressure caused by scattering particle beams off the mirror material. Such a measurement does not rely on tagging a final state. This strategy has the potential to allow us to explore novel ways to constrain the presence of new interactions beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics and provide additional constraints to poorly understood cross-sections in the non-perturbative regime of QCD and nuclear physics, which are limiting factors of dark matter and neutrino physics searches. Beyond high-energy physics, if technically feasible, the proposed method to measure nucleon-nucleon interactions can lead to practical applications in material and medical sciences.

Citation

Englert, C., Hild, S., & Spannowsky, M. (2018). Particle physics with gravitational wave detector technology. European Physical Society Letters, 123(4), Article 41001. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/123/41001

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 21, 2018
Online Publication Date	Sep 19, 2018
Publication Date	Sep 19, 2018
Deposit Date	Oct 4, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Oct 12, 2018
Journal	Europhysics Letters
Print ISSN	0295-5075
Publisher	IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	123
Issue	4
Article Number	41001
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/123/41001

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