Generalized Uncertainty Principle in Bar Detectors of Gravitational Waves

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AbstractAt present, the gravitational waves detectors achieve the sensitivity to detect the length variation (\(\delta L\)), \(\mathcal {O} \approx 10^{-17}-10^{-21}\) m. Recently, a more stringent upperbound on the dimensionless parameter \(\beta _0\), bearing the effect of generalized uncertainty principle, has been given which corresponds to the intermediate length scale \(l_{im}= \sqrt{\beta _0} l_{pl} \sim 10^{-23}\) m. Hence, it becomes quite obvious to search for the generalized uncertainty principle by observing the response of the vibrations of phonon modes in such resonant detectors in the near future. Therefore, we calculate the resonant frequencies and transition rates induced by the incoming gravitational waves on these detectors in the generalized uncertainty principle framework. This presentation is based on the work published in [1].