Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
Gravitational Wave Experiments and Early Universe Cosmology
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Maggiore, Michele |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | Gravitational-wave experiments with interferometers and with resonant masses can search for stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves of cosmological origin. We review both experimental and theoretical aspects of the search for these backgrounds. We give a pedagogical derivation of the various relations that characterize the response of a detector to a stochastic background. We discuss the sensitivities of the large interferometers under constructions (LIGO, VIRGO, GEO600, TAMA300, AIGO) or planned (Avdanced LIGO, LISA) and of the presently operating resonant bars, and we give the sensitivities for various two-detectors correlations. We examine the existing limits on the energy density in gravitational waves from nucleosynthesis, COBE and pulsars, and their effects on theoretical predictions. We discuss general theoretical principles for order-of-magnitude estimates of cosmological production mechanisms, and then we turn to specific theoretical predictions from inflation, string cosmology, phase transitions, cosmic strings and other mechanisms. We finally compare with the stochastic backgrounds of astrophysical origin. To appear in Physics Reports Address from Sept. 1, 1999 until May 31, 2000: Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cds.cern.ch/record/398350/files/9909001.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9909001v2.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9909001v4.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9909001v1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9909001v3.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Apple Lisa COSMIC Detectors Estimated Experiment Mandibular right second molar tooth Phase Transition Program derivation Switzerland Virgo |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
