STATUS OF THE VIRGO EXPERIMENT

Authors
CARON B DOMINJON A DREZEN C FLAMINIO R GRAVE X MARION F MASSONNET L MEHMEL C MORAND R MOURS B YVERT M BABUSCI D GIORDANO G MATONE G MACKOWSKI JM NAPOLITANO M PINARD L DOGNIN L BARONE F CALLONI E DIFIORE L FLAGIELLO M GRADO A LONGO M LOPS M MARANO S MILANO L RUSSO G SOLIMENO S ACKER Y BRILLET A BONDU F BRISSON V CAVALIER F DAVIER M HEITMANN H HELLO P JACQUEMET M LATRACH L LEDIBERDER F MAN CN MANH PT TAUBMANN M VINET JY BOCCARA C GLEYZES P ROGER JP LORIETTE V CAGNOLI G GAMMAITONI L KOVALIK J MARCHESONI F PUNTURO M BARSUGLIA M BERNARDINI M BRACCINI S BRADASCHIA C DELFABBRO R DESALVO R DIVIRGILIO A FERRANTE I FIDECARO F GIASSI A GIAZOTTO A GORINI G HOLLOWAY L LAMI S LAPENNA P LOSURDO G MANCINI S MORGANTI M PALLA F PAN HB PASSUELLO D POGGIANI R TORELLI G ZHANG Z MAJORANA E PUPPO P RAPAGNANI P RICCI F
Citation
B. Caron et al., STATUS OF THE VIRGO EXPERIMENT, Nuclear physics. B, 1996, pp. 107-109
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Year of publication
1996
Supplement
48
Pages
107 - 109
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1996):<107:SOTVE>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The Virgo detector will be a 3 km long interferometer antenna with a d esign sensitivity aiming at the direct observation of gravitational wa ves. The construction of this detector which will be installed near Pi sa is under way. The data taking should start in year 2000 with a desi gn sensitivity dose to (h) over tilde similar or equal to 10(-23) Hz(- 1/2). The motivations, detector principle, main sources of noise and s tatus of the experiment are presented.