A new experiment for gravitational wave detection
- 1 November 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physics
- Vol. 99 (11), 975-981
- https://doi.org/10.1139/cjp-2021-0077
Abstract
A new experiment for gravitational waves (GWs) detection is proposed. It is shown that the effect of GWs on sound waves (SWs) in a fluid is that GWs vary the pressure of the fluid as they pass through it. This variation can be found by analysing the gauge of the local observer. It is shown that one can, in principle, detect GWs through the proposed new experiment. The variation of the pressure of the fluid, which represents detected signals, is indeed much higher than the corresponding values of GW amplitudes. The examples of rotating neutron stars (NSs) and relic GWs are discussed. Remarkably, a comparison of the proposed new method with a previous paper of Singh et al. (New J. Phys. 19, 073023 (2017). doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aa78cb) on a similar approach shows a possible improvement of the sensitivity concerning the potential detection of GWs. It must be emphasized that this proposed procedure may be difficult in practical experiments because of the presence of different types of noise. For this reason, a section of the paper is dedicated to the discussion of such noise. On the other hand, this paper must be considered as pioneering the new proposed approach. Thus, we hope that in future more precise studies of the noise that concerns the proposed new experiment will be done.Keywords
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