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New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA

  • K. G. Arun
  • , Enis Belgacem
  • , Robert Benkel
  • , Laura Bernard
  • , Emanuele Berti
  • , Gianfranco Bertone
  • , Marc Besancon
  • , Diego Blas
  • , Christian G. Böhmer
  • , Richard Brito
  • , Gianluca Calcagni
  • , Alejandro Cardenas-Avendaño
  • , Katy Clough
  • , Marco Crisostomi
  • , Valerio De Luca
  • , Daniela Doneva
  • , Stephanie Escoffier
  • , José María Ezquiaga
  • , Pedro G. Ferreira
  • , Pierre Fleury
  • Stefano Foffa, Gabriele Franciolini, Noemi Frusciante, Juan García-Bellido, Carlos Herdeiro, Thomas Hertog, Tanja Hinderer, Philippe Jetzer, Lucas Lombriser, Elisa Maggio, Michele Maggiore, Michele Mancarella, Andrea Maselli, Sourabh Nampalliwar, David Nichols, Maria Okounkova, Paolo Pani, Vasileios Paschalidis, Alvise Raccanelli, Lisa Randall, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Antonio Riotto, Milton Ruiz, Alexander Saffer, Mairi Sakellariadou, Ippocratis D. Saltas, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Lijing Shao, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Thomas P. Sotiriou, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Nicola Tamanini, Filippo Vernizzi, Helvi Witek, Kinwah Wu, Kent Yagi, Stoytcho Yazadjiev, Nicolás Yunes, Miguel Zilhão, Niayesh Afshordi, Marie Christine Angonin, Vishal Baibhav, Enrico Barausse, Tiago Barreiro, Nicola Bartolo, Nicola Bellomo, Ido Ben-Dayan, Eric A. Bergshoeff, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Daniele Bertacca, Swetha Bhagwat, Béatrice Bonga, Lior M. Burko, Geoffrey Compére, Giulia Cusin, Antonio da Silva, Saurya Das, Claudia de Rham, Kyriakos Destounis, Ema Dimastrogiovanni, Francisco Duque, Richard Easther, Hontas Farmer, Matteo Fasiello, Stanislav Fisenko, Kwinten Fransen, Jörg Frauendiener, Jonathan Gair, László Árpád Gergely, Davide Gerosa, Leonardo Gualtieri, Wen Biao Han, Aurelien Hees, Thomas Helfer, Jörg Hennig, Alexander C. Jenkins, Eric Kajfasz, Nemanja Kaloper, Vladimír Karas, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Sergei A. Klioner, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Macarena Lagos, Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte, Francisco S.N. Lobo, Charalampos Markakis, Prado Martín-Moruno, C. J.A.P. Martins, Sabino Matarrese, Daniel R. Mayerson, José P. Mimoso, Johannes Noller, Nelson J. Nunes, Roberto Oliveri, Giorgio Orlando, George Pappas, Igor Pikovski, Luigi Pilo, Jiří Podolský, Geraint Pratten, Tomislav Prokopec, Hong Qi, Saeed Rastgoo, Angelo Ricciardone, Rocco Rollo, Diego Rubiera-Garcia, Olga Sergijenko, Stuart Shapiro, Deirdre Shoemaker, Alessandro Spallicci, Oleksandr Stashko, Leo C. Stein, Gianmassimo Tasinato, Andrew J. Tolley, Elias C. Vagenas, Stefan Vandoren, Daniele Vernieri, Rodrigo Vicente, Toby Wiseman, Valery I. Zhdanov, Miguel Zumalacárregui
  • SPIC Science Foundation
  • Utrecht University
  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  • Observatoire de Paris
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • King's College London
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University College London
  • University of Lisbon
  • CSIC - Institute for the Structure of Matter
  • Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Princeton University
  • University of Oxford
  • International School for Advanced Studies
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Tübingen
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • The University of Chicago
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • University of Aveiro
  • KU Leuven
  • University of Zurich
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • University of Virginia
  • Simons Foundation
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Padua
  • CERN
  • Harvard University
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Cardiff University
  • Peking University
  • CSIC - Institute of Space Sciences
  • Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia
  • University of Nottingham
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
  • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Ariel University
  • University of Groningen
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Université libre de Bruxelles
  • University of Lethbridge
  • Imperial College London
  • The University of Auckland
  • College of DuPage
  • Moscow State Linguistic University
  • University of Otago
  • University of Szeged
  • University of Milan - Bicocca
  • CAS - Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
  • University of California at Davis
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • Brown University
  • Columbia University
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Complutense University
  • University of Porto
  • University of Portsmouth
  • Stockholm University
  • University of L'Aquila
  • Charles University
  • University of Birmingham
  • York University Toronto
  • Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
  • NASU - Main Astronomical Observatory
  • CNRS
  • University of Mississippi
  • Swansea University
  • Kuwait University
  • University of Naples Federico II

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Abstract

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the gravitational interaction is both strong and dynamical. In this white paper, the Fundamental Physics Working Group of the LISA Consortium summarizes the current topics in fundamental physics where LISA observations of gravitational waves can be expected to provide key input. We provide the briefest of reviews to then delineate avenues for future research directions and to discuss connections between this working group, other working groups and the consortium work package teams. These connections must be developed for LISA to live up to its science potential in these areas.

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
JournalLiving Reviews in Relativity
Volume25
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022

Keywords

  • Fundamental physics
  • Gravitational waves
  • LISA
  • Tests of general relativity

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