Seismic isolation systems, consistent of passive attenuators, based on mechanical harmonic oscillators with resonant frequencies below the frequency region of interest, are being used by multiple ...Gravitational wave (GW) detectors. We conduct a study of the fundamental limitations present due to the properties of the material such as Maraging steel, used in some of the seismic attenuation systems for GW detectors. We tentatively interpret the main effects observed in our system, such as the anomalous damping and the hysteresis, in terms of movement of dislocations trapped between Maraging steel intermetallic precipitates. In light of our understanding, we further discuss and propose ideas to overcome these limitations and improve the performance of these systems, which may allow for passive attenuation at even lower-frequency regimes than achieved so far. These advanced performances would help further reduce the requirements on the mirror suspension control actuators and could reduce their associated noise in the present Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detectors (GWID). This advancement can lead to more suitable seismic attenuation systems for the future instruments with lower frequency sensitivity requirements.
The CLEO III drift chamber Peterson, D; Berkelman, K; Briere, R ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
02/2002, Letnik:
478, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The CLEO group at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring has constructed and commissioned a new central drift chamber. With 9796 cells arranged in 47 layers ranging in radius from 13.2 to
79
cm
, the new ...drift chamber has a smaller outer radius and fewer wires than the drift chamber it replaces, but allows the CLEO tracking system to have improved momentum resolution. Reduced scattering material in the chamber gas and in the inner skin separating the drift chamber from the silicon vertex detector provides a reduction of the multiple scattering component of the momentum resolution and an extension of the usable measurement length into the silicon. Momentum resolution is further improved through quality control in wire positioning and symmetry of the electric fields in the drift cells which have provided a reduction in the spatial resolution to
88
μm
(averaged over the full drift range).
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