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Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves
The LIGO observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger has begun a new era in fundamental physics. If new dark sector particles, be they bosons or fermions, can coalesce into exotic compact objects (ECOs) of astronomical size, then the first evidence for such objects, and their...
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Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/10/001 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2150796 |
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author | Giudice, Gian F. McCullough, Matthew Urbano, Alfredo |
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description | The LIGO observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger has begun a new era in fundamental physics. If new dark sector particles, be they bosons or fermions, can coalesce into exotic compact objects (ECOs) of astronomical size, then the first evidence for such objects, and their underlying microphysical description, may arise in gravitational wave observations. In this work we study how the macroscopic properties of ECOs are related to their microscopic properties, such as dark particle mass and couplings. We then demonstrate the smoking gun exotic signatures that would provide observational evidence for ECOs, and hence new particles, in terrestrial gravitational wave observatories. Finally, we discuss how gravitational waves can test a core concept in general relativity: Hawking's area theorem. |
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spelling | cern-21507962022-08-10T12:38:14Zdoi:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/10/001http://cds.cern.ch/record/2150796engGiudice, Gian F.McCullough, MatthewUrbano, AlfredoHunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational WavesParticle Physics - PhenomenologyThe LIGO observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger has begun a new era in fundamental physics. If new dark sector particles, be they bosons or fermions, can coalesce into exotic compact objects (ECOs) of astronomical size, then the first evidence for such objects, and their underlying microphysical description, may arise in gravitational wave observations. In this work we study how the macroscopic properties of ECOs are related to their microscopic properties, such as dark particle mass and couplings. We then demonstrate the smoking gun exotic signatures that would provide observational evidence for ECOs, and hence new particles, in terrestrial gravitational wave observatories. Finally, we discuss how gravitational waves can test a core concept in general relativity: Hawking's area theorem.The LIGO observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger has begun a new era in fundamental physics. If new dark sector particles, be they bosons or fermions, can coalesce into exotic compact objects (ECOs) of astronomical size, then the first evidence for such objects, and their underlying microphysical description, may arise in gravitational wave observations. In this work we study how the macroscopic properties of ECOs are related to their microscopic properties, such as dark particle mass and couplings. We then demonstrate the smoking gun exotic signatures that would provide observational evidence for ECOs, and hence new particles, in terrestrial gravitational wave observatories. Finally, we discuss how gravitational waves can test a core concept in general relativity: Hawking's area theorem.arXiv:1605.01209CERN-TH-2016-106CERN-TH-2016-106oai:cds.cern.ch:21507962016-05-04 |
spellingShingle | Particle Physics - Phenomenology Giudice, Gian F. McCullough, Matthew Urbano, Alfredo Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves |
title | Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves |
title_full | Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves |
title_fullStr | Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves |
title_full_unstemmed | Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves |
title_short | Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves |
title_sort | hunting for dark particles with gravitational waves |
topic | Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
url | https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/10/001 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2150796 |
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