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Aspects of Graviton Detection: Graviton Emission and Absorption by Atomic Hydrogen

Stephen Boughn, Tony Rothman

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0605052

Abstract

Graviton absorption cross sections and emission rates for hydrogen are calculated by both semi-classical and field theoretic methods. We point out several mistakes in the literature concerning spontaneous emission of gravitons and related phenomena, some of which are due to a subtle issue concerning gauge invariance of the linearized interaction Hamiltonian.

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