Detection of gravitational waves in circular particle accelerators
arXiv:2012.00529 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.122006
Abstract
Here we calculate the effects of astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs) on the travel times of proton bunch test masses in circular particle accelerators. We show that a high-precision proton bunch time-tagging detector could turn a circular particle accelerator facility into a GW observatory sensitive to millihertz (mHz) GWs. We comment on sources of noise and the technological feasibility of ultrafast single photon detectors by conducting a case study of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
9 pages, 2 figures. This manuscript has been accepted for publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review D