Plefka Lab

Humboldt University of Berlin

Berlin (DE3) · Germany

ERC-funded
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ERC Advanced Grant · 2022

High-Precision Gravitational Wave Physics from a Worldline Quantum Field Theory

This project will determine the gravitational waves emitted in the encounter of two black holes or neutron stars in our universe at highest-precision. The gravitational waves emerging from such violent mergers are now routinely detected at the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories since their discovery in 2016. With the presently planed third generation of observatories the experimental accuracy will dramatically increase. Theoretical predictions for the emitted waveforms at highest-precision are therefore needed in order to determine the source parameters, such as masses, spins and intrinsic parameters of the two compact objects. Obtaining these waveforms requires solving the extremely difficult…

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