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  • Current gravitational wave detectors face challenges with sensitivity at frequencies above 10 kHz.

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  • To propose a novel method for enhancing the sensitivity of the Levitated Sensor Detector (LSD) for gravitational wave detection.
  • To explore previously inaccessible high-frequency gravitational wave signals.

Main Methods:

  • Optically levitating a multilayered stack of dielectric discs within the Levitated Sensor Detector.
  • Utilizing a more massive levitated object with minimal photon recoil heating due to light scattering.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method significantly improves sensitivity for high-frequency gravitational waves.
  • Access to an order of magnitude of unexplored frequency space for gravitational waves above 10 kHz is achieved with a 10-100 meter instrument.

Conclusions:

  • The enhanced LSD design opens new avenues for detecting gravitational waves from axion-related phenomena and primordial black hole mergers.
  • This technology promises to probe new physics in the high-frequency gravitational wave spectrum.