Detecting gravitational waves with the LHC and some ideas for more fundamental science with neutrons

Name: Detecting gravitational waves with the LHC and some ideas for more fundamental science with neutrons
Start: 2022-03-29T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-03-29T12:00:00+02:00
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by Daniel Zerzion

Tuesday 29 Mar 2022, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Stockholm

Description

It is shown that the interaction between gravitational waves (GWs) and ultra-relativistic bunches of particles in storage rings produces a measurable effect on the geometry of the rotating beam.
Such an interaction causes simultaneous, highly correlated, deflections of bunches at different locations in a collider beam.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its injector, the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), at CERN, use different types of beam position’ systems. It is proposed to store and reconstruct bunch oscillations so that a clear picture of the complete rotating relativistic ring can be achieved and any moment and be analyzed off-line to look for gravitational waves (GWs).
For single events, such as a burst of GWs coming from the coalescence of different celestial bodies, an alarm system, for other messengers and detectors (e.g., gravitational waves spectrometers, neutrinos, gamma rays, space telescopes), can be fast-triggered. We also expect that high frequency components of the background GW black body radiation of the Universe to have observable resonant effects on the storage beams.
Some highlights from the recent ARIES APEC workshop on “Storage Rings and Gravitational Waves” (SRGW2021), held in virtual space from 2 February to 18 March 2021, will also be presented.