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Mechanical quality factor of a cryogenic sapphire test mass for gravitational wave detectors

✍ Scribed by T. Uchiyama; T. Tomaru; M.E. Tobar; D. Tatsumi; S. Miyoki; M. Ohashi; K. Kuroda; T. Suzuki; N. Sato; T. Haruyama; A. Yamamoto; T. Shintomi

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
195 KB
Volume
261
Category
Article
ISSN
0375-9601

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✦ Synopsis

A sapphire cylinder, of 100 mm diameter and 60 mm length, was suspended on a pair of sapphire fibers to simulate a mirror for a cryogenic laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. A mechanical quality factor of 2.5 = 10 8 was obtained for the second axial symmetric mode of the cylinder at 4.2 K.

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