Lab Experiments and Detector Characterization

Presentations

• Extracting torque from torsion pendulum motion in a short-range test of gravity

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 1:30 PM – April 11, 2022, 1:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Jesse P Mendez

    • Humboldt State University

  Authors

  • Jesse P Mendez

    • Humboldt State University

  • Kyle R Galaz

    • Humboldt State University

  • Emily N Ord

    • Humboldt State University

  • Charles D Hoyle

    • Humboldt State University

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• Measurement of Newton's gravitational constant with the BIPM torsion balance

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 1:42 PM – April 11, 2022, 1:54 PM

  Publication: S. Schlamminger, L. Chao, V. Lee, D. Newell, and C. Speake. The crane operator's tricks and other shenanigans with a pendulum accepted by American Journal of Physics, 2021

  Presenters

  • Stephan Schlamminger

    • National Institute of Standards and Tech

  Authors

  • Stephan Schlamminger

    • National Institute of Standards and Tech

  • Leon S Chao

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Vincent D Lee

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Clive C Speake

    • University of Birmingham

  • David B Newell

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• New approach for hte detection of short range Yukawa-like interactions

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 1:54 PM – April 11, 2022, 2:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Ricardo S Decca

    • Indiana University - Purdue University

  Authors

  • Ricardo S Decca

    • Indiana University - Purdue University

  • Patrick Kelley

    • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

  • Shubhankar Jape

    • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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• First search for new forces at the micron scale using optically levitated microspheres

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 2:06 PM – April 11, 2022, 2:18 PM

  Publication: PHYSICAL REVIEW D 104, L061101 (2021)

  Presenters

  • Alexander Fieguth

    • Stanford University
    • Stanford university

  Authors

  • Alexander Fieguth

    • Stanford University
    • Stanford university

  • Akio Kawasaki

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford university

  • Charles P Blakemore

    • Stanford University
    • Stanford university

  • Alexander Rider

    • SRI

  • Giorgio Gratta

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford university

  • Nadav Priel

    • Stanford university

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• Simulating the Impacts of Systematic Calibration Uncertainty on Gravitational Wave Detector Astrophysical Sensitivity

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 2:18 PM – April 11, 2022, 2:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Richard P Udall

    • LIGO Laboratory, Caltech

  Authors

  • Richard P Udall

    • LIGO Laboratory, Caltech

  • Jacob Golomb

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Derek Davis

    • LIGO Laboratory, Caltech
    • Syracuse University

  • Alan J Weinstein

    • Caltech

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• Saga of mysterious 15 Hz ground motion at LIGO Livingston Observatory

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 2:30 PM – April 11, 2022, 2:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Beverly K Berger

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Beverly K Berger

    • Stanford University

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• Quantitative Gravitational Excitation of a Bending Beam Resonator – Theory and Measurement

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 2:42 PM – April 11, 2022, 2:54 PM

  Publication: Brack T, Zybach B. et al. Measurement and theory of gravitational coupling between resonating beams. Nat. Phys., in review

  Presenters

  • Tobias Brack

    • ETH Zurich

  Authors

  • Tobias Brack

    • ETH Zurich

  • Fadoua Balabadaoui

    • ETH Zurich

  • Stefan Blunier

    • ETH Zurich

  • Jonas Fankhauser

    • ETH Zurich

  • Stephan Kaufmann

    • ETH Zurich

  • Francesco Palmegiano

    • ETH Zurich

  • Donat Scheiwiller

    • ETH Zurich

  • Jean-Claude Tomasina

    • ETH Zurich

  • Bernhard Zybach

    • ETH Zurich

  • Jürg Dual

    • ETH Zurich

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