Testing General Relativity With Laser Accelerated Electron Beams
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-05 v1
Abstract
Electron accelerations of the order of obtained by laser fields open up the possibility of experimentally testing one of the cornerstones of general relativity, the weak equivalence principle, which states that the local effects of a gravitational field are indistinguishable from those sensed by a properly accelerated observer in flat space-time. We illustrate how this can be done by solving the Einstein equations in vacuum and integrating the geodesic equations of motion for a uniformly accelerated particle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1207.3770,
title = {Testing General Relativity With Laser Accelerated Electron Beams},
author = {L. Á. Gergely and T. Harko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3770},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Proceedings of LEI 2011 - Light at Extreme Intensities Conference, Szeged, Hungary, 2011