15Nov 2017

GRAVITON MASS GENERATION IN IN-SPIRALING DNS.

  • School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, 510275, P. R. China.
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Although the Einsteins?s general relativity predicted that the gravitational waves propagate at a speed of light and that the gravitons have no masses, many efforts, in keeping with some current cosmological observations, have been made to give graviton a mass and to realize a sound theory of massive gravity [1, 2]. However, it remains a mystery how gravitons generate a mass. According to Higgs mechanism, a spontaneous symmetry breaking is essential to a generation mechanism of property ?mass? for associated particles. We point out that a spontaneous scalarized inspiring double neutron star (DNS) system can provide us a natural laboratory to investigate the generation mechanism of masses for gravitons. Because of the appearance of a gravitational scalar background field, with small fluctuations, converged by iterative interplay of the mass dimensional external scalar fields, the binary system suffers from a spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. The two scalarized NSs dip in a Higgs-like gravitational scalar potential, where the massless scalar background fluctuation field plays the role of Higgs field. Consequently, the gravitational scalar background field becomes massive. The radiated gravitons, propagating in a Yukawa-corrected potential, acquire a scalar-background-dependent mass term, in a massive-scalar-field-mediated way. We demonstrate that the mass of gravitons depends on intrinsic properties of the sources, which is not a certain value. The background-dependent masses for gravitons from scalarized orbital shrinking DNS is variable with the compactness of two components, as well as the separation of the binary. We get the effective masses for gravitons radiated from 8 detected DNS binaries with more precise mass measurements in our galaxy, whose values appear to be of the order of 10−23ev/c2. It is found that more massive gravitons radiate from closer DNS system, consisting with the higher-frequency gravitational waves from closer binaries.

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[J. Wang. (2017); GRAVITON MASS GENERATION IN IN-SPIRALING DNS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Nov). 608-613] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5808      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5808

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