Testing Einstein's Equivalence Principle With Gravitational Waves

分类： 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间： 2016-08-30

Xue-Feng Wu He Gao Jun-Jie Wei Xi-Long Fan Peter M´esz´aros Bing Zhang Zi-Gao Dai Shuang-Nan Zhang Zong-Hong Zhu

摘要： A conservative constraint on the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) can be obtained under the assumption that the observed time delay between correlated particles from astronomical sources is dominated by the gravitational fields through which they move. Current limits on the EEP are mainly based on the observed time delays of photons with different energies, and it is highly desirable to develop more accurate tests involving different types of particles. The detection by the advanced LIGO/VIRGO systems of gravitational waves (GWs) will provide attractive candidates for constraining the EEP, which would further extend the tested particle species to the gravitons, with potentially higher accuracy. Considering the capabilities of the advanced LIGO/VIRGO network and the source direction uncertainty, we show that the joint detection of GWs and electromagnetic signals can potentially probe the EEP to an accuracy of 10−11, which is several orders of magnitude tighter than previous limits.

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