STATUS OF THE VIRGO EXPERIMENT

Authors
CARON B DOMINJON A MARION F MASSONNET L MORAND R MOURS B YVERT M BABUSCI D FANG H GIORDANO G MATONE G MATONE L SANNIBALE V MACKOWSKI JM NAPOLITANO M PINARD L BOCCARA C GLEIZES P LORIETTE V ROGER JP BARONE F CALLONI E DIFIORE L GRADO A LONGO M MILANO L RUSSO G SOLIMENO S BONDU F BRILLET A BRISSON V CLEVA F DAVIER M HEITMANN H HELLO P INNOCENT JM JACQUEMET M LATRACH L LEDIBERDER F MAN CN MARRAUD A NGUYEN GM PHAMTU M VINET JY CAGNOLI G GAMMAITONI L MARCHESONI F PUNTURO M BRACCINI S BRADASCHIA C DELFABBRO R DIVIRGILIO A FERRANTE I FIDECARO F FLAMINIO R GIASSI A GIAZOTTO A GORINI G HOLLOWAY LE HONG CX LUSIANI A MORGANTI M PALLA F PASSUELLO D POGGIANI R TORELLI G ZHOU Z
Citation
B. Caron et al., STATUS OF THE VIRGO EXPERIMENT, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 360(1-2), 1995, pp. 258-262
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
360
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
258 - 262
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1995)360:1-2<258:SOTVE>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The VIRGO experiment was approved in September 1993. The goal of the F rench-Italian collaboration is to detect gravitational waves using a 3 km arm-length Michelson interferometer. The construction of this dete ctor, 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 beg inning of the year 2000 with nominal sensitivity close to h = 3 X 10-( 23)/root Hz. The motivations, detection principle, main sources of noi se and status of the experiment are presented.