Thermal Noise workshop

Feb 23, 2012, 9:00 AM → Feb 24, 2012, 5:00 PM Europe/Rome

Auditorium (Virgo site)

Gregory Harry (LIGO/MIT), Michele Punturo (PG), Piero Rapagnani (ROMA1), Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)

Thermal Noise in advanced Gravitational Wave detectors. LIGO-Virgo workshop. The workshop venue is the Auditorium at Virgo/EGO Site. See here how to reach the site. Registration and accomodation info will be added soon.

Thursday, February 23

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Past experiences 01

In this session the experience acheived in the Virgo+ set-up and in the aLIGO prototypes are discussed

9:30 AM Welcome

Speakers: Mr Federico Ferrini (European Gravitational Observatory), Michele Punturo (PG)

9:35 AM The mechanics of the Virgo Super-Attenuator

Speaker: Franco Frasconi (PI)

Slides MecSA_ffra_23feb12.pptx

10:05 AM The Virgo Super Attuenuator control and the low frequency performances in the past runs

Speaker: Ettore Majorana (ROMA1)

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM coffee break

11:20 AM → 1:00 PM Past Experiences 02

... continuation

11:20 AM Quadruple Suspension Design for Advanced LIGO

Speaker: Dr Norna Robertson (LIGO-Caltech)

Slides G1200077-v2_Pisa_2012.pptx

11:50 AM Monolithic suspension (fibers and clamping) in Virgo+

Speakers: Dr Flavio Travasso (INFN Perugia), Francesco Piergiovanni (FI)

Slides

• 10-Travasso_-_Cascina_-_Thermal_Noise_Workshop_23_February_2012_-_Monolithic_suspension_(fibers_and_clamping)_in_Virgo_plus.ppt
• piergiovanni_TH_meeting_2012.pptx
• piergiovanni_TH_meeting_2012.pptx

12:25 PM The last stage mechanics in Virgo+

Speaker: Paola Puppo (ROMA1)

Slides Last_Stage_Mechanics_Puppo_230212b.pptx

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 4:00 PM Past Experiences 03

... continuation

2:30 PM Quadruple Suspension Design for Advanced LIGO: Discussion

3:00 PM Tests and understanding of the V+ monolithic suspensions: 01

Speaker: Dr Marzia Colombini (ROMA1)

Slides Colombini.pdf.pdf

3:20 PM Tests and understanding of the V+ monolithic suspensions: 02

Speaker: Matteo Tacca (EGO)

Paper taccaTNW.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM → 6:00 PM Modeling

In this session the modeling of the suspension are presented and the expected performances are described.

4:20 PM Coating design for Advanced Detectors

Speaker: Mr Nazario MORGADO (LMA-CNRS)

Slides Morgado_-_Design_Coating_Adv_Detector_(TN_Workshop_Pisa_February_23th_2012).pdf

4:50 PM Modeling of the suspension thermal noise in Virgo

Speaker: Paola Puppo (ROMA1)

Slides Puppo_230212.pptx

5:20 PM The design motivation of the aLIGO final stage, our expectations of its performance etc

Speaker: Dr Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)

Slides aLIGO_monolithic_Pisa_v2.ppt

Friday, February 24

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Modeling 02

... continue

9:30 AM Parametric Instabilities

Speaker: Dr william kells (Caltech)

Slides CIT_PI_mitigation_G1200099-v1.pdf

10:00 AM Advanced Virgo suspension design

Speaker: Ettore Majorana (ROMA1)

Slides AdV_PAY_Guidelines_TNW_2012_02_24-25_Ettore.ppt

10:30 AM Material loss angle from TNI

Speaker: Innocenzo M. Pinto (SA)

Slides Cascina_EGO_TNW_2011_Pinto.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

11:20 AM → 1:00 PM Procedures

n this session the handling, repairing, ... procedures are described

11:20 AM Repair procedures

Speaker: Dr Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)

Slides LIGO-G1200106_-aLIGO_Monolithic_suspension_building_and_repairs_Virgo_Thermal_Noise_meeting_23-24th_Feb_2012.ppt

11:50 AM Handling procedures (Discussion)

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM break

2:30 PM → 5:00 PM Discussion