Gravitational Waves from a Quantum Field Theory Perspective

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-23769-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

This book treats the subject of gravitational waves (GWs) production in binary stars or black-holes and in the early universe, using tools of quantum field theory which are familiar to graduate students and researchers in particle physics. A special focus is given to the generation of templates of gravitational wave signals from Feynman diagram calculations of transition amplitudes, which interests active researchers in GWs. The book presents field theory concepts, like supersymmetry realized in spinning binaries and soft-graviton theorems, that can have practical applications in novel GW signals, like the memory effect. The book also aims at specialists in both GWs and particle physics addressing cosmological models of phase transition and inflation that can be tested in observations at terrestrial and space based interferometers, pulsar timing arrays, and the cosmic microwave anisotropy observations.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohanty, Subhendra

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 IntroductionReferences
2 Gravitational waves in classical general relativity 2.1 Introduction2.2 Waveform of gravitational waves at detectors2.3 Polarizations of gravitational waves 2.4 Waveforms from compact binaries2.5 Gravitational waveform from sources at cosmological distances 2.6 Graviton propagation in the dark matter/dark energy medium2.7 Propagation of gravitational waves through perfect fluid medium 2.8 Propagation through dissipative medium2.9 Propagation through scalar field dark matter2.10 Polarizations of the graviton2.11 Modified gravity theories References
3 Field theory of Linearised Gravity 3.1 Field theory of Linearised gravity 3.2 Graviton-Matter coupling3.3 Gauge invariance and conservation of stress tensor3.4 Newtonian gravity3.5 1PN correction: Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann action3.6 Quantum gravity corrections to Newtonian potential3.7 Massive gravity theories3.8 Bending of light3.9 Eikonal method3.10 Bending of light by a spinning star3.11 Gravitational Cerenkov radiation3.12 Gravitational wave-form from quantum amplitude3.13 Waveform from quantum amplitude: coalescing binaryReferences
4 Gravitational wave radiation from binary stars4.1 Introduction4.2 Gravitational wave radiation from compact binary stars4.3 Binary radiation in the non-relativistic effective theory4.4 Gravitational radiation from binary stars in the effective theory4.5 Radiation of ultralight-scalars from binary stars4.6 Vector boson radiation by neutron star binaries4.7 Waveform of GRW signal from eccentric coalescing binariesReferences 
5 Graviton emission from spinning bodies5.1 Dynamics of spinning bodies in General Relativity5.2 Binary system of spinning blackholes5.3 Signature of black-hole spins in gravitational wave events5.4 Post Newtonian order spin effects in GW signals from binaries5.5 Finite size effects in spinning binary neutron stars5.6 Effective action for spin-orbital and spin-spin couplings in binaries5.7 Supersymmetric transformations of fields5.8 Supersymmetry of spinning bodies
References
6 Gravitational memory and soft-graviton theorem6.1 Soft graviton amplitudes6.2 Log corrections to leading order soft-graviton amplitude6.3 Gravitational wave-form from soft amplitudes6.4 Memory effect from soft-graviton theorem6.5 Wave-form of gravitational memory from coalescing binary6.6 Memory effect in FLRW background6.7 Hyperbolic scattering of compact stars and soft-graviton amplitudes
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7 Stochastic gravitational waves7.1 Stochastic gravitational waves7.2 Symmetry breaking and topological defects7.3 Gravitational radiation from Domain walls7.4 Gravitational radiation from Cosmic strings7.5 Monopole bounded strings7.6 String bounded domain walls7.7 Generation of GW in phase transition7.8 Stochastic GW from unresolved binaries
References
8 Inflation8.1 Inflation8.2 Stochastic gravity waves from inflation8.3 Gravitational waves from second order scalar perturbations8.4 Gravitational wave from pre-heating8.5 Primordial black-holes8.6 Stochastic Gravitational wave in Primordial Black-hole formation8.7 Effective field theory of Inflation
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Subhendra Mohanty obtained his PhD from University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA in 1989. After that he held postdoctoral positions at CERN and ICTP. He joined the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad (India) in 1994, where he is currently a Professor. He spent a sabbatical year in Universita Autonoma of Barcelona in 2007. His fields of investigation are particle physics and cosmology. He was elected as a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences India in 2021.He published 100+ papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has been involved in teaching courses for graduate students and young researchers. He already published in Lecture Notes in Physics the volume Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology: Perspectives in the Multimessenger Era (Springer, 2020).