Published June 1, 1995
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Journal article
Status of the VIRGO experiment
Creators
- 1. Grenoble-1 Univ., 74 - Annecy (France). Lab. de Physique des Particules
Description
The VIRGO experiment was approved in September 1993. The goal of the French-Italian collaboration is to detect gravitational waves using a 3 km arm-length Michelson interferometer. The construction of this detector, which will be installed in Pisa, is under way. The experiment is planned to take data, in a large bandwidth (10 Hz-10 kHz), at the beginning of the year 2000 with nominal sensitivity close to h=3x10-23/√(Hz). The motivations, detection principle, main sources of noise and status of the experiment are presented. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 360
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 258-262.
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- Frontier detectors for frontier physics.
- Acronym
- 6. Pisa meeting on advanced detectors
- Dates
- 22-28 May 1994.
- Place
- La Biodola (Italy).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 26074223
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DESIGN; FLUCTUATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; INTERFEROMETRY; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; NOISE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY; STABILITY
- Descriptors DEC
- INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SIMULATION; VARIATIONS