Testing Fundamental Properties of Space with the Fermilab Holometer

Kamai, Brittany

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/840/1/012055

Title: Testing Fundamental Properties of Space with the Fermilab Holometer

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Precision length measurements provide valuable insights about the fundamental properties of space-time. The Holometer is a research program to both experimentally probe signatures of the Planck scale and to extend the accessible frequency range from kHz up to MHz for gravitational wave searches. The instrument consists of separate yet identical 39-meter Michelson interferometers operated at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which can reach length sensitivities better than $${10}^{-20}\mathrm{m/}\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$$ within the 1-10 MHz frequency range. Lastly, the Holometer is fully operational with 130 of hours of science quality data obtained during the first observational campaign.

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Kamai, Brittany ^[1]

California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Publication Date:: 2017-06-01

Research Org.:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Ford Foundation; John Templeton Foundation

Contributing Org.:: Holometer collaboration

OSTI Identifier:: 1367898

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-CONF-16-702-AE
Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588; 1602837

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; DGE-0909667

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Physics. Conference Series

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 840; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588

Publisher:: IOP Publishing

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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  title        = {Testing Fundamental Properties of Space with the Fermilab Holometer},

  author       = {Kamai, Brittany},

  abstractNote = {Precision length measurements provide valuable insights about the fundamental properties of space-time. The Holometer is a research program to both experimentally probe signatures of the Planck scale and to extend the accessible frequency range from kHz up to MHz for gravitational wave searches. The instrument consists of separate yet identical 39-meter Michelson interferometers operated at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which can reach length sensitivities better than ${10}^{-20}\mathrm{m/}\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ within the 1-10 MHz frequency range. Lastly, the Holometer is fully operational with 130 of hours of science quality data obtained during the first observational campaign.},

  doi          = {10.1088/1742-6596/840/1/012055},

  journal      = {Journal of Physics. Conference Series},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 840,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {6}

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