July 19, 2016

Stanford, SLAC X-ray Studies Could Help Make LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector 10 Times More Sensitive

The Goal is to Develop High-tech Coatings that Make Detector’s Mirrors Less ‘Noisy’

An optics technician inspects one of Advanced LIGO’s high-performance mirrors – the heart and soul of the gravitational wave detector. (Matt Heintze/Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab)
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