An effective formalism for testing extensions to General Relativity with gravitational waves

Endlich, Solomon; Gorbenko, Victor; Huang, Junwu; Senatore, Leonardo

doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2017)122

Title: An effective formalism for testing extensions to General Relativity with gravitational waves

Journal Article · 31 August 2017 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)122 · OSTI ID:1468796

Endlich, Solomon ^[1]; Gorbenko, Victor ^[2]; Huang, Junwu ^[2]; Senatore, Leonardo ^[2]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Inst. for Theoretical Physics; Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Inst. for Theoretical Physics

The recent direct observation of gravitational waves (GW) from merging black holes opens up the possibility of exploring the theory of gravity in the strong regime at an unprecedented level. It is therefore interesting to explore which extensions to General Relativity (GR) could be detected. We construct an Effective Field Theory (EFT) satisfying the following requirements. It is testable with GW observations; it is consistent with other experiments, including short distance tests of GR; it agrees with widely accepted principles of physics, such as locality, causality and unitarity; and it does not involve new light degrees of freedom. The most general theory satisfying these requirements corresponds to adding to the GR Lagrangian operators constructed out of powers of the Riemann tensor, suppressed by a scale comparable to the curvature of the observed merging binaries. The presence of these operators modifies the gravitational potential between the compact objects, as well as their effective mass and current quadrupoles, ultimately correcting the waveform of the emitted GW.

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Research Organization:: Leland Stanford Junior Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0008078

OSTI ID:: 1468796

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 2017; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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