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Guido Pizzella Universita’ di Roma Tor Vergata INFN- Frascati. Coincidences between the g.w. detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS. LISA. ROG Collaboration LNF, Roma1, Roma2. CERN RE 5. LNF INFN. LNGS. Calibration: a) gravity induced by a rotor b) cosmic ray showers.
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Guido PizzellaUniversita’ di Roma Tor VergataINFN- Frascati Coincidences between the g.w. detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS
ROG Collaboration LNF, Roma1, Roma2 CERN RE 5 LNF INFN LNGS
Calibration:a) gravity induced by a rotorb) cosmic ray showers (in addition to small applied forces)
Astone et al., Z.Phys.C50:21-29,1991 Eur. Phys. J. C 5, 651-664 (1998) Vmeasured=19.1±0.7mV Vexpected=21.1±0.6mV
Cosmic Rays Large signals Small signals
energy threshold time
Large signals Explorer 2003 Explorer
aluminum Buonomo et al., Astropart.Phys.24:65-74,2005
Search for coincidences Cross-section depending on orientation = osin4()
Polarized sources in the Galactic Centre Astron.Astrophys.421:811-813,2004 3.5±1.5 Efficiency of detection Sidereal hour 3.5 hour
Sources uniform over the galactic disk Sidereal hour
energy threshold time
In the conclusions of the 1998 paper presented to the IGEC collaboration in 1999 and 2000 and written together with the LSU group: ...we find an excess of coincidences at zero time delay in the direction of the galactic centre. Class.Quant.Grav.18:243-252,2001
2001 Class.Quant.Grav.19:5449-5463,2002
2003 Class.Quant.Grav.23:S169-S178,2006
3.5±1.5 sidereal hours all sidereal hours
1998 2001 2003 2004 Day of year
Searching if any special astrophysical phenomena occurred in the period 7-17 September 1998
7-17 September 1998 1.1 10-4
ConclusionWe have shown a coincidence excess with very small probability to be accidental (1% in total, 0.02% at selected sidereal hours). Gravitational waves ?
6432 ore 2004 nc=27 <n>=1.8 Offset=6.7 ms s=5.9 ms