New Effect for Detecting Gravitational Waves by Amplification with Electromagnetic Radiation

The perturbation of Dirac particles moving in a constant magnetic field is calculated for simultaneously incident parallel monochromatic circular polarized electromagnetic and gravitational waves. Resonances are found which depend on the initial energy of the charged particles, the magnetic field, and the frequencies of the incident waves. A suited choice of these parameters allows the selection of only one resonance that is proportional to the product of the squares of the amplitudes of both waves. This effect is valid for all bound systems of Dirac particles interacting simultaneously with electromagnetic and gravitational waves. At least in principle this resonance effect can be used to detect the gravitational waves in the lab. For regions of the universe with strong electromagnetic and gravitational waves and suited magnetic fields this effect may play another important part for the acceleration of charged particles.