Gravitational Waves: the theorist's Swiss knife
Abstract
Gravitational waves provide a novel and powerful way to test astrophysical models of compact objects, early universe processes, beyond the Standard Model particle physics, dark matter candidates, Einstein's theory of General Relativity and extended gravity models, and even quantum gravity candidate theories. A short introduction to the gravitational-wave background and the method we are using to detect it will be presented. Constraints on various astrophysical/cosmological models from the non-detectability of the gravitational-wave background will be discussed. Gravitational waves from transients will be highlighted and their physical implications will be summarised.
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@article{arxiv.2202.00735,
title = {Gravitational Waves: the theorist's Swiss knife},
author = {Mairi Sakellariadou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.00735},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
15 pages; Invited talk at the conference "The Quantum & The Gravity"; to paper in a speciaL issue "The Quantum & The Gravity" of Universe