Discovery Opportunities with Gravitational Waves -- TASI 2024 Lecture Notes

Abstract

Recent advancements in gravitational wave astronomy hold the promise of a completely new way to explore our Universe. These lecture notes aim to provide a concise but self-contained introduction to key concepts of gravitational wave physics, with a focus on the opportunities to explore fundamental physics in transient gravitational wave signals and stochastic gravitational wave background searches.CERN-TH-2024-152

Comments: 31 pages, lecture notes prepared for TASI 2024 school. Comments welcome