Particle Physics with Gravitational Wave Detector Technology

TL;DR

This paper proposes using gravitational wave detector technology combined with modulated particle sources to measure particle interactions via scattering pressure, offering a novel approach to explore new physics beyond the Standard Model and applications in material sciences.

Contribution

It introduces a new experimental method that leverages gravitational wave detector technology for particle physics measurements without relying on final state tagging.

Findings

Potential to constrain new particle interactions beyond the Standard Model

Provides additional constraints on non-perturbative QCD and nuclear physics cross sections

Possible applications in material and medical sciences

Abstract

Gravitational wave detector technology provides high-precision measurement apparatuses that, if combined with a modulated particle source, have the potential to measure and constrain particle interactions in a novel way, by measuring the pressure caused by scattering particle beams off the mirror material. Such a measurement does not rely on tagging a final state. This strategy has the potential to allow us to explore novel ways to constrain the presence of new interactions beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics and provide additional constraints to poorly understood cross sections in the non-perturbative regime of QCD and Nuclear Physics, which are limiting factors of dark matter and neutrino physics searches. Beyond high-energy physics, if technically feasible, the proposed method to measure nucleon-nucleon interactions can lead to practical applications in material and medical sciences.