Speaker
Serge Hamoudou
(McMaster University)
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. I 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.
Author
Serge Hamoudou
(McMaster University)