Detection of gravitational waves in circular particle accelerators

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.

arXiv comment9 pages, 2 figures. This manuscript has been accepted for publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review D

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