O D Aguiar et al 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S209 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/22/10/011
O D Aguiar1, L A Andrade5, J J Barroso1, F Bortoli6, L A Carneiro1, P J Castro1, C A Costa1, K M F Costa3, J C N de Araujo1, A U de Lucena1, W de Paula3, E C de Rey Neto1, S T de Souza1, A C Fauth4, C Frajuca6, G Frossati8, S R Furtado1, N S Magalhães3, R M Marinho Jr3, E S Matos1, J L Melo1, O D Miranda1, N F Oliveira Jr2, B W Paleo1, M Remy1, K L Ribeiro1, C Stellati3, W F Velloso Jr7 and J Weber1
Show affiliationsThe Schenberg gravitational wave detector is almost completed for operation at its site in the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo, under the full support of FAPESP (the São Paulo State Foundation for Research Support). We have been working on the development of a transducer system, which will be installed after the arrival of all the microwave components and the completion of the transducer mechanical parts. The initial plan is to operate a CuAl6% two-mode parametric transducer in a first operational run at 4.2 K with nine transducers and an initial target sensitivity of h ~ 2 × 10−21 Hz−1/2 in a 50 Hz bandwidth around 3.2 kHz. Here we present details of this plan and some recent results of the development of this project.
Issue 10 (21 May 2005)
Received 29 October 2004, in final form 13 January 2005
Published 21 April 2005
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