caa a22 4500 46790619X CHVBK 20180406152835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10701-006-9081-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10701-006-9081-9 Can Gravitons be Detected? [Elektronische Daten] [Tony Rothman, Stephen Boughn] Freeman Dyson has questioned whether any conceivable experiment in the real universe can detect a single graviton. If not, is it meaningful to talk about gravitons as physical entities? We attempt to answer Dyson's question and find it is possible concoct an idealized thought experiment capable of detecting one graviton; however, when anything remotely resembling realistic physics is taken into account, detection becomes impossible, indicating that Dyson's conjecture is very likely true. We also point out several mistakes in the literature dealing with graviton detection and production. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 gravitons nationallicence gravitational waves nationallicence gravitational bremsstrahlung nationallicence graviton-electron cross-sections nationallicence Rothman Tony Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA aut Boughn Stephen Haverford College, 19041, Haverford, PA, USA aut Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/12(2006-12-01), 1801-1825 0015-9018 36:12<1801 2006 36 10701 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-006-9081-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-006-9081-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rothman Tony Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boughn Stephen Haverford College, 19041, Haverford, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foundations of Physics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/12(2006-12-01), 1801-1825 0015-9018 36:12<1801 2006 36 10701 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer