18–21 Dec 2023
Facultad de Ciencias
Europe/Madrid timezone

Detecting (high frequency) gravitational waves in a box

21 Dec 2023, 12:30
30m
Seminario de Física Atómica, Nuclear y Molecular (Facultad de Ciencias)

Seminario de Física Atómica, Nuclear y Molecular

Facultad de Ciencias

Speaker

Diego Blas

Description

In the presence of a background EM field, the passage of GWs generate different modes in EM cavities by either their effect on the background field or by interacting with the boundaries of the cavity. In this talk, I will describe this process in some detail and show that these set-ups provide some of the best bounds for GWs in the MHz-GHz band. I shall finish by briefly describing the way GWs interact with spin systems.

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