First measurements of high frequency cross-spectra from a pair of large Michelson interferometers

Chou, Aaron S.; Gustafson, Richard; Hogan, Craig; Kamai, Brittany; Kwon, Ohkyung; Lanza, Robert; McCuller, Lee; Meyer, Stephan S.; Richardson, Jonathan; Stoughton, Chris; Tomlin, Raymond; Waldman, Samuel; Weiss, Rainer

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.111102

Title: First measurements of high frequency cross-spectra from a pair of large Michelson interferometers

Journal Article · Fri Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.111102· OSTI ID:1330368

Chou, Aaron S. ^[1]; Gustafson, Richard ^[2]; Hogan, Craig ^[3]; Kamai, Brittany ^[4]; Kwon, Ohkyung ^[5]; Lanza, Robert ^[6]; McCuller, Lee ^[6]; Meyer, Stephan S. ^[7]; Richardson, Jonathan ^[7]; Stoughton, Chris ^[1]; Tomlin, Raymond ^[1]; Waldman, Samuel ^[8]; Weiss, Rainer ^[9]

Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (Republic of Korea)
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Space X, Hawthorne, CA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Here, measurements are reported of the cross-correlation of spectra of differential position signals from the Fermilab Holometer, a pair of colocated 39 m long, high power Michelson interferometers with flat broadband frequency response in the MHz range. The instrument obtains sensitivity to high frequency correlated signals far exceeding any previous measurement in a broad frequency band extending beyond the 3.8 MHz inverse light-crossing time of the apparatus. The dominant but uncorrelated shot noise is averaged down over 2 × 10⁸ independent spectral measurements with 381 Hz frequency resolution to obtain 2.1 × 10^-20m/ √Hz sensitivity to stationary signals. For signal bandwidths Δf > 11 kHz, the sensitivity to strain h or shear power spectral density of classical or exotic origin surpasses a milestone PSD_δh < t_p where t_p = 5.39 × 10^-44/ Hz is the Planck time.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: Holometer Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1330368

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1323572

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-16-217-AE; PRLTAO; 1486143

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 11; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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