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It is believed that there are extra fundamental gauge symmetries beyond these described by the Standard Model of particle physics. The scale of these new gauge symmetries are usually too high to be reachable by particle colliders.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-01 Wei Chao , Wen-Feng Cui , Huai-Ke Guo , Jing Shu

Some collapse models proposed that gravitational effects cause the instability of mass distribution superpositions, leading to wave function collapse. In this paper, we utilize the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE) to analyze the behavior of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Moslem Zarei

A main scientific output of the LISA Pathfinder mission is to provide a noise model that can be extended to the future gravitational wave observatory, LISA. The success of the mission depends thus upon a deep understanding of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-28 M. Nofrarias , C. Röver , M. Hewitson , A. Monsky , G. Heinzel , K. Danzmann , L. Ferraioli , M. Hueller , S. Vitale

An effective field theory framework, the Standard-Model Extension, is used to investigate the existence of Lorentz and CPT-violating effects during gravitational wave propagation. We implement a modified equation for the dispersion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-08 Leïla Haegel , Kellie O'Neal-Ault , Quentin G. Bailey , Jay D. Tasson , Malachy Bloom , Lijing Shao

The eventual detection of gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) will help improve our current understanding of the explosion mechanism of massive stars. The stochastic nature of the late post-bounce gravitational wave…

In the near future, space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA can open the window of low-frequency band of GW and provide new tools to test gravity theories. In this work, we consider multi-parameter tests of GW generation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Rui Niu , Zhi-Chu Ma , Ji-Ming Chen , Chang Feng , Wen Zhao

Dimensional flow, the scale dependence of the dimensionality of spacetime, is a feature shared by many theories of quantum gravity (QG). We present the first study of the consequences of QG dimensional flow for the luminosity distance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-14 Gianluca Calcagni , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Sylvain Marsat , Mairi Sakellariadou , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller

The LISA Pathfinder mission will demonstrate the technology of drag-free test masses for use as inertial references in future space-based gravitational wave detectors. To accomplish this, the Pathfinder spacecraft will perform drag-free…

Core-Collapse Supernovae (CCSNe) remain a critical focus in the search for gravitational waves (GWs) in modern astronomy. Their detection and subsequent analysis will enhance our understanding of the explosion mechanisms in massive stars.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Zhicheng Pan , El Mehdi Zahraoui , Guillermo Cabrera-Guerrero , Patricio Maturana-Russel

The quantum-to-classical transition hinges on the nature of wavefunction collapse, which remains a central controversy in foundational physics. Objective collapse theories aim to modify quantum mechanics by introducing a physical,…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Roman V. Li

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will open the millihertz band to survey ultra-compact binaries (UCBs). \textit{Verification binaries} (VBs) is a key to verifying the performance of space-based GW detectors because its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Zi-Heng Yu , Sen Yang , Liangliang Ren , Shun-Jia Huang

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are planning the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission in order to detect GW. The need of accurate testing of free-fall and knowledge…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-10-14 Michele Armano

Carrying out a research program outlined by John S. Bell in 1987, we arrive at a relativistic version of the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber (GRW) model of spontaneous wavefunction collapse. The GRW model was proposed as a solution of the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roderich Tumulka

In this work, we systematically investigate the capability of space-based gravitational wave detectors in constraining parameters of non-tensor polarization modes. Using Bayesian inference and Fisher Information Matrix methods, we analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Jun-Shuai Wang , Chang Liu , Ju Chen , Jibo He

General Relativity (GR) describes gravitation well at the energy scales which we have so far been able to achieve or detect. However, we do not know whether GR is behind the physics governing stronger gravitational field regimes, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-13 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We use gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes (BBHs) and neutron stars inspiraling into intermediate-mass black holes to evaluate how accurately the future space-based GW detectors such as LISA, Taiji and TianQin and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Qing Gao , Yujie You , Yungui Gong , Chao Zhang , Chunyu Zhang

The late collapse, core bounce, and the early postbounce phase of rotating core collapse leads to a characteristic gravitational wave (GW) signal. The precise shape of the signal is governed by the interplay of gravity, rotation, nuclear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-06 Ernazar Abdikamalov , Sarah Gossan , Alexandra M. DeMaio , Christian D. Ott

We consider the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by a network of cosmic strings and assess their accessibility to current and planned gravitational wave detectors, as well as to big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xavier Siemens , Vuk Mandic , Jolien Creighton