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Title: Reflection of electromagnetic waves from mixtures of plane gravitational and scalar waves
Authors: Gürtuğ, Özay
Halilsoy, Mustafa
Ünver, Özlem
Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Art & Sciences, Department of Physics
Keywords: hybrid mixtures of electromagnetic, gravitational, and scalar waves. Irrespective of the scalar field,
multiple reflection of an electromagnetic wave,Coulomb-like component 2 vanishes
Issue Date: 2006
Publisher: American Physical Soc
Abstract: We consider colliding wave packets consisting of hybrid mixtures of electromagnetic, gravitational, and scalar waves. Irrespective of the scalar field, the electromagnetic wave still reflects from the gravitational wave. Some reflection processes are given for different choice of packets in which the Coulomb-like component 2 vanishes. Exact solution for multiple reflection of an electromagnetic wave from successive impulsive gravitational waves is obtained in a closed form. It is shown that a successive sign flip in the Maxwell spinor arises as a result of encountering with an impulsive train (i.e. the Dirac’s comb curvature) of gravitational waves. Such an observable effect may be helpful in the detection of gravitational wave bursts.
Description: The file in this item is the publisher version (published version) of the article.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.044020
http://hdl.handle.net/11129/3470
ISSN: 1550-7998 (Online)
1550-2368 (Print)
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