First cryogenic test operation of underground km-scale gravitational-wave observatory KAGRA
KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai, Y. Arai, S. Araki, A. Araya, N. Aritomi, H. Asada, Y. Aso, S. Atsuta, K. Awai, S. Bae, L. Baiotti, M. A. Barto… 展开作者
KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai, Y. Arai, S. Araki, A. Araya, N. Aritomi, H. Asada, Y. Aso, S. Atsuta, K. Awai, S. Bae, L. Baiotti, M. A. Barton, K. Cannon, E. Capocasa, C-S. Chen, T-W. Chiu, K. Cho, Y-K. Chu, K. Craig, W. Creus, K. Doi, K. Eda, Y. Enomoto, R. Flaminio, Y. Fujii, M. -K. Fujimoto, M. Fukunaga, M. Fukushima, T. Furuhata, A. Hagiwara, S. Haino, K. Hasegawa, K. Hashino, K. Hayama, S. Hirobayashi, E. Hirose, B. H. Hsieh, C-Z. Huang, B. Ikenoue, Y. Inoue, K. Ioka, Y. Itoh, K. Izumi, T. Kaji, T. Kajita, M. Kakizaki, M. Kamiizumi, S. Kanbara, N. Kanda, S. Kanemura, M. Kaneyama, G. Kang, J. Kasuya, Y. Kataoka, N. Kawai, S. Kawamura, T. Kawasaki, C. Kim, J. Kim, J. C. Kim, W. S. Kim, Y. -M. Kim, N. Kimura, T. Kinugawa, S. Kirii, Y. Kitaoka, H. Kitazawa, Y. Kojima, K. Kokeyama, K. Komori, A. K. H. Kong, K. Kotake, R. Kozu, R. Kumar, H-S. Kuo, S. Kuroyanagi, H. K. Lee, H. M. Lee, H. W. Lee, M. Leonardi, C-Y. Lin, F-L. Lin, G. C. Liu, Y. Liu, E. Majorana, S. Mano, M. Marchio, T. Matsui, F. Matsushima, Y. Michimura, N. Mio, O. Miyakawa, A. Miyamoto, T. Miyamoto, K. Miyo, S. Miyoki, W. Morii, S. Morisaki, Y. Moriwaki, T. Morozumi, I. Murakami, M. Musha, K. Nagano, S. Nagano, K. Nakamura, T. Nakamura, H. Nakano, M. Nakano, K. Nakao, Y. Namai, T. Narikawa, L. Naticchioni, L. Nguyen Quynh, W. -T. Ni, A. Nishizawa, Y. Obuchi, T. Ochi, J. J. Oh, S. H. Oh, M. Ohashi, N. Ohishi, M. Ohkawa, K. Okutomi, K. Ono, K. Oohara, C. P. Ooi, S-S. Pan, J. Park, F. E. Peña Arellano, I. Pinto, N. Sago, M. Saijo, Y. Saito, S. Saitou, K. Sakai, Y. Sakai, Y. Sakai, M. Sasai, M. Sasaki, Y. Sasaki, N. Sato, S. Sato, T. Sato, Y. Sekiguchi, N. Seto, M. Shibata, T. Shimoda, H. Shinkai, T. Shishido, A. Shoda, K. Somiya, E. J. Son, A. Suemasa, T. Suzuki, T. Suzuki, H. Tagoshi, H. Tahara, H. Takahashi, R. Takahashi, A. Takamori, H. Takeda, H. Tanaka, K. Tanaka, T. Tanaka, S. Tanioka, E. N. Tapia San Martin, D. Tatsumi, S. Terashima, T. Tomaru, T. Tomura, F. Travasso, K. Tsubono, S. Tsuchida, N. Uchikata, T. Uchiyama, A. Ueda, T. Uehara, S. Ueki, K. Ueno, F. Uraguchi, T. Ushiba, M. H. P. M. van Putten, H. Vocca, S. Wada, T. Wakamatsu, Y. Watanabe, W-R. Xu, T. Yamada, A. Yamamoto, K. Yamamoto, K. Yamamoto, S. Yamamoto, T. Yamamoto, K. Yokogawa, J. Yokoyama, T. Yokozawa, T. H. Yoon, T. Yoshioka, H. Yuzurihara, S. Zeidler, Z. -H. Zhu
KAGRA is a second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detector with 3-km arms constructed at Kamioka, Gifu in Japan. It is now in its final installation phase, which we call bKAGRA (baseline KAGRA), with scientific observations expected to begin in late 2019. One of the advantages of KAGRA is its underground location of at least 200 m below the ground surface, which brings small seismic motion at low frequencies and high stability of the detector. Another advantage is that it cools down the sapphire test mass mirrors to cryogenic temperatures to reduce thermal noise. In April-May 2018, we have operated a 3-km Michelson interferometer with a cryogenic test mass for 10 days, which was the first time that km-scale interferometer was operated at cryogenic temperatures. In this article, we report the results of this "bKAGRA Phase 1" operation. We have demonstrated the feasibility of 3-km interferometer alignment and control with cryogenic mirrors.
Response of the underground environment of the KAGRA observatory against the air-pressure disturbance from the Tonga volcano eruption on January 15th, 2022
A feasibility study of extruded plastic scintillator embedding WLS fiber for AMoRE-II muon veto
AMoRE-II是高级钼基稀有过程实验的第二阶段，目的是使用约200公斤含氘低温探测器寻找100 Mo同位素的无中微子双β衰变。AMoRE-II需要使用各种方法将本底水平保持在10-5计数/keV/kg/年以下，以最大限度地提高灵敏度。方法之一是在远离宇宙射线背景的地下深处进行实验。AmoRE-II将在Yemilab运行，深度约为1，000米。然而，即使在如此深的地下环境中，仍然存在幸存的宇宙μ子，它们会影响测量，应尽可能排除。μ子否决探测器是必要的，以拒绝μ子诱导的粒子进入内部探测器，其中低温探测器位于。我们已经研究了使用挤出塑料闪烁体和波长漂移光纤与SiPM一起作为μ子否决系统的可能性。我们发现最佳的结构是两层塑料分离器（PS，150 cm x 25 cm x 1.2 cm），每个槽有两个WLS光纤，它可以很好地分离放射性γ，μ子探测效率在99.4%以上。基于700米深地下原型测量的预期通量，我们发现，在Yemilab的AMoRE-II的μ子否决系统的死时间为1 ms否决窗口的0.6%的整个μ子事件。
A Polarization-Decomposed Method for Simulating Inhomogeneous Birefringence in Laser-Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Institute of Science Tokyo（东京科学大学）；University of Tokyo（东京大学）；Cardiff University（卡迪夫大学）；University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学）；The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；National Astronomical Observatory of Japan（日本国立天文台）；Università di Trento（特伦托大学）；Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency（日本宇宙航空研究开发机构）
