Challenges and Opportunities of Gravitational Wave Searches above 10 kHz
Abstract
The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the challenges and gains expected in gravitational-wave searches at frequencies above the LIGO/Virgo band. The scarcity of possible astrophysical sources in most of this frequency range provides a unique opportunity to discover physics beyond the Standard Model operating both in the early and late Universe, and we highlight some of the most promising of these sources. We review several detector concepts that have been proposed to take up this challenge, and compare their expected sensitivity with the signal strength predicted in various models. This report is the summary of a series of workshops on the topic of high-frequency gravitational wave detection, held in 2019 (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), 2021 (online) and 2023 (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland).
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@article{arxiv.2501.11723,
title = {Challenges and Opportunities of Gravitational Wave Searches above 10 kHz},
author = {Nancy Aggarwal and Odylio D. Aguiar and Diego Blas and Andreas Bauswein and Giancarlo Cella and Sebastian Clesse and Adrian Michael Cruise and Valerie Domcke and Sebastian Ellis and Daniel G. Figueroa and Gabriele Franciolini and Camilo Garcia-Cely and Andrew Geraci and Maxim Goryachev and Hartmut Grote and Mark Hindmarsh and Asuka Ito and Joachim Kopp and Sung Mook Lee and Killian Martineau and Jamie McDonald and Francesco Muia and Nikhil Mukund and David Ottaway and Marco Peloso and Krisztian Peters and Fernando Quevedo and Angelo Ricciardone and Andreas Ringwald and Jessica Steinlechner and Sebastian Steinlechner and Sichun Sun and Carlos Tamarit and Michael E. Tobar and Francisco Torrenti and Caner Ünal and Graham White},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11723},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
138 pages, 13 figures. Update and extension of Living Rev$.$Rel. 24 (2021) 1, 4 on high frequency gravitational waves (arxiv: 2011.12414). Matches published version