14–18 Nov 2022
America/Guayaquil timezone

A novel search for gravitational waves inspired by axion dark matter

17 Nov 2022, 16:30
15m
Salón Azul (USFQ main campus)

Salón Azul

USFQ main campus

Parallel oral presentation Cosmology and gravitation Parallel session B

Speaker

Camilo Alfredo García-Cely

Description

Ideas originally developed for axion dark matter can be adopted to search for high-frequency gravitational waves. To illustrate this, I will discuss the Gertsenshtein effect, or the inter-conversion of gravitational waves into electromagnetic waves in the presence of external magnetic (or electric) fields. Exploiting the analogy with axions I will show that axion haloscopes based on lumped-element detectors can probe gravitational waves in the 100 kHz-100 MHz range. Finally, I will discuss the corresponding detection prospects of primordial-black-hole binaries.

Based on
Phys.Rev.Lett. 129 (2022) 4, 041101
Phys.Rev.Lett. 126 (2021) 2, 021104

Poster fallback option for rejected abstracts for parallel oral presentations No

Author

Camilo Alfredo García-Cely (University of Valencia)

Presentation materials