Decoherence of Gravitational Wave Oscillations in Bigravity

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Following up on our recent study, we consider the regime of graviton masses and gravitational wave propagation distances at which decoherence of the wave packets plays a major role for phenomenology.

• This regime is of particular interest, as it can lead to very striking phenomena of echo events in the gravitational waves coming from coalescence events.
• The power of the experimental search in this case lies in the fact that it becomes sensitive to a large range of graviton masses, while not relying on a specific production mechanism.
• We are thus able to place new relevant limits on the parameter space of the graviton mixing angle.