High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Michael Wentzel & (UIUC) "Electromagnetic Cavities as Mechanical Bars for Gravitational Waves"
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Michael Wentzel |
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Date: | 4/14/2023 |
Time: | 11 a.m. |
Location: | Room 464 |
Event Contact: | Brandy Koebbe BKOEBBE@ILLINOIS.EDU |
Sponsor: | Department of Physics |
Event Type: | Seminar/Symposium |
Superconducting cavities can operate analogously to Weber bar detectors of gravitational waves, converting mechanical to electromagnetic energy. The significantly reduced electromagnetic noise results in increased sensitivity to high-frequency signals well outside the bandwidth of the lowest mechanical resonance. In this talk, we will briefly discuss such signals of gravitational waves and demonstrate that a setup similar to the existing “MAGO” prototype, operating in a scanning or broadband manner, could have sensitivity to strains approximately 10^-22 - 10^-18 for frequencies of approximately 10 kHz - 1 GHz.
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