Upper limits on the amplitude of ultra-high-frequency gravitational waves from graviton to photon conversion

Ejlli, A., Ejlli, D., Cruise, A. M., Pisano, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681 and Grote, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-3943 2019. Upper limits on the amplitude of ultra-high-frequency gravitational waves from graviton to photon conversion. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 79 (12) , 1032. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7542-5

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Abstract

In this work, we present the first experimental upper limits on the presence of stochastic gravitational waves in a frequency band with frequencies above 1 THz. We exclude gravitational waves in the frequency bands from (2.7−14)× 10 14 (2.7−14)×1014 Hz and (5−12)× 10 18 (5−12)×1018 Hz down to a characteristic amplitude of h min c ≈6× 10 −26 hcmin≈6×10−26 and h min c ≈5× 10 −28 hcmin≈5×10−28 at 95% confidence level, respectively. To obtain these results, we used data from existing facilities that have been constructed and operated with the aim of detecting weakly interacting slim particles, pointing out that these facilities are also sensitive to gravitational waves by graviton to photon conversion in the presence of a magnetic field. The principle applies to all experiments of this kind, with prospects of constraining (or detecting), for example, gravitational waves from light primordial black-hole evaporation in the early universe.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	EDP Sciences: EPJ
ISSN:	1434-6044
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 January 2020
Date of Acceptance:	9 December 2019
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 03:59
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128908

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