Gravitons to photons -- attenuation of gravitational waves

DOI10.1142/S0218271815440174zbMATH Open1329.83076arXiv1505.04843MaRDI QIDQ3464449FDOQ3464449

Authors: Preston Jones, Douglas Singleton 

Publication date: 27 January 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this essay we examine the response of an Unruh-DeWitt detector (a quantum two-level system) to a gravitational wave background. The spectrum of the Unruh-Dewitt detector is of the same form as some scattering processes or three body decays such as muon-electron scattering or muon decay. Based on this similarity we propose that the Unruh-DeWitt detector response implies a "decay" or attenuation of gravitons, $G$, into photons, $gamma$, via $G+Gightarrowgamma+gamma$ or $Gightarrowgamma+gamma+G$. Over large distances such a decay/attenuation may have consequences in regard to the detection of gravitational waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04843

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zbMATH Keywords

vacuum fluctuationsgravitational wavesgravitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35)

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• Quantum Fields in Curved Space
• Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
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