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EC(H)Os in the dark: Gravitational Wave backgrounds from colliding ECOs at atom interferometers

Hannah Banks · CERN

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Long baseline atom interferometers (LBAI) offer an exciting opportunity to explore mid-frequency gravitational waves. In this talk I will advocate for targeting the total 'gravitational wave background', surveying the landscape of possible contributions within this frequency band. I will demonstrate that the cumulative signal from the inspirals of the LIGO-Virgo stellar-mass binaries is well within reach of typical terrestrial LBAI and may have much to reveal about the Universe. Finally, I will show that populations of dark sector exotic compact objects harbouring just a tiny fraction of the dark energy density, could generate signatures unique to mid- and low-frequency gravitational wave detectors, providing a novel means to probe complexity in the dark sector..

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  1. EC(H)Os in the dark: Gravitational Wave backgrounds from colliding ECOs at atom interferometers 2023-06-02 · 7 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Department
Eucapt Conferences
Speaker
Hannah Banks
Year
2023
Language
English
Source
CERN
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