21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Conversion between Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves at Medium Boundaries

23 Jun 2026, 11:15
15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) (DTP) T1-10 | (DPT)

Speaker

Serge Hamoudou (PhD Student)

Description

It is well known that in the bulk of a background electromagnetic field, photons and gravitons convert into one another. This phenomenon is known as the Gertsenshtein effect. In my research, use this result to examine what happens at a boundary separating a vacuum region from a background electromagnetic field, and I find that up to 34 % of an incoming gravitational wave’s energy can get reflected and converted into electromagnetic waves, and vice versa.

Keyword-1 Graviton-photon coupling
Keyword-2 Boundary effects

Author

Serge Hamoudou (PhD Student)

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