Detecting the stochastic gravitational-wave background

• Tác giả: Carlo Nicola Colacino
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1681740188
• ISBN-13: 978-1681740829
• ISBN-13: 978-1681742106
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 523.82 Optical, electromagnetic, radioactive, thermal phenomena
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings) : , color illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 161185
• Chủ đề: 1. Gravitational waves; 2. Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); 3. SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is by far the most difficult source of gravitational radiation detect. At the same time, it is the most interesting and intriguing one. This book describes the initial detection of the SGWB and describes the underlying mathematics behind one of the most amazing discoveries of the 21st century. On the experimental side it would mean that interferometric gravitational wave detectors work even better than expected. On the observational side, such a detection could give us information about the very early Universe, information that could not be obtained otherwise. Even negative results and improved upper bounds could put constraints on many cosmological and particle physics models.