Graviton-photon oscillation in a cosmic background for a general theory of gravity
Abstract
Graviton-photon oscillation is the conversion of gravitational waves to electromagnetic waves and vice versa in the presence of a background electromagnetic field. We investigate this phenomenon in a cosmological scenario considering a background cosmic magnetic field and assuming different gravitational frameworks. We obtain the damping term that characterizes the attenuation of the conversion probability in cosmological backgrounds. This is a general feature that is present even for standard General Relativity. Furthermore, we show that the effects of decoherence, which are due to the interaction with the cosmological expansion and with the additional degrees of freedom of alternative theories of gravity, can be relevant to the phenomenon of graviton-photon mixing.
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@article{arxiv.2302.08186,
title = {Graviton-photon oscillation in a cosmic background for a general theory of gravity},
author = {José A. R. Cembranos and Miguel González Ortiz and Prado Martín-Moruno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08186},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
V1:12 pages, 4 figures; V2: some clarifications included, references added. Version accepted for publication in PRD