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Short-range Newtonian coupling to GW test-masses

Short-range Newtonian coupling to GW test-masses. by N.A. Lockerbie. GWADW Hawaii 15 May, 2012. Axial Forces. Local (perturbing) gravitational sources. Suspended test-masses (TMs). Local mass surrounding TMs may move.

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Short-range Newtonian coupling to GW test-masses

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  1. Short-range Newtonian coupling to GW test-masses by N.A. Lockerbie GWADW Hawaii 15 May, 2012

  2. Axial Forces Local (perturbing) gravitational sources • Suspended test-masses (TMs). • Local mass surrounding TMs may move. • This movement will change Newtonian axial forces on TMs—quasi instantaneously. • Ostensibly, calculating the effects of such mass movements (1–3) appears obvious and straightforward • (are effects negligible ?)

  3. B A Background—cylindrical test-masses for theSatellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP)experiment • STEP led by Prof. Francis Everitt, • Uni. of Stanford, USA. • Two bodies A and B. • Different materials. • Permanent free-fall. z-axis • In vacuo. • 2 K. • Drag-free spacecraft (as GP-B). • Earth appears to be orbiting CCW about test-masses. • Superconducting • Linear bearings. • SQUID differential displacement detection. • Aimed at measuring • Eötvös ratio h ( Daz/a) to 1 part in 1018.

  4. Local gravitational sources for STEP • Paired cylindrical test-masses • Co-axial • Concentric. • Local (potential) gravitational sources of systematic error, e.g. bubbles in liquid 4He. • A bubble’s (negative) mass can pull gravitationally, and differentially, on test-masses • Synchronous with perceived rotation rate of ‘Earth around spacecraft.’ • Can mimic an EP violating signal.

  5. q Newtonian coupling to STEP Test Masses • Radial distance of source mass R0 was held constant, and q was stepped in 1º increments through one quadrant. • At each new source-mass position (value of q) the total gravitational force on each test mass, due to the point source-mass, was found by integration. From this, the full axial acceleration of each test-mass was deduced. • The two axial accelerations were differenced to find Daz, and the ratio Daz/a was calculated, where a is the common-mode acceleration. Source- mass • Problem resolved itself into finding the axial acceleration of each test-mass due to the local source-mass m — here, a perturbing (negative) source. • Challenge: determining the best shape for each test-mass so as to minimise Daz. m Sensitive axis

  6. Polar plot of ratio Daz/a. (constant) Residual differential acceleration ratio • An early example of the resulting plot of Daz/a, calculated using 3D Monte-Carlo integration over the volume of each test-mass, separately... • Unexpected multi-lobed angular structure seen in the spherical polar plot—having alternating signs for the differential, axial, gravitational coupling. • The 3D integrations of primitive gravitational vector forces took 40 h of computation at that time, but... CM • ...integration over (say) an extended source-mass would involve 6D integrations (3D over source + 3D over each relevant test-mass • even today, Unfeasibly lengthy. 6 ppm (outer mass radius = 28.5 mm, semi axial-length = 40.5 mm R0 = 250 mm).

  7. Fortuitous gravitational balancing… • It turned out in the previous example that gravitational ‘64-pole’ Newtonian coupling dominated the differential acceleration between two almost perfectly balanced test-masses • Polar angular appearance was so striking its functional form was perfectly recognizable as • the Legendre polynomial P7(cos(q)): - • Recognition of this relationship led to a far better method for determining the axial acceleration of cylindrical test-masses, due to point gravitational sources • and so, by superposition, due to any gravitational sources. • The original 40 h calculation by 3D integration was now completed in less than 1s, and to higher accuracy, using this method.

  8. ForceFz . (Unit source mass on z-axis at z = R0). becomes Single test-mass: source-mass on its cylindrical axis Newtonian gravitational attraction towards the fixed source-mass. mass M Closed-form solution for Fz possible here, with source-mass on axis : -

  9. axial ForceF sensitive-axis Newtonian gravitational attraction of an extended body by a (unit) point source-mass test-mass source-mass mass M Points within the body described by vector r(x, y, z) . External field point P described by vector R0, (X, Y, Z) . The density of the body, , may vary throughout its volume, V. Axes are fixed within body. Origin is at the CM of the body.

  10. G is the gravitational constant = 6.67  10-11 N.m2.kg-2; unit source-mass. Expansion of the PE about R0 Gravitational PE, source atP, is:  (Taylor Expansion). Monopolar PE, source at P (acts as if all the body’s mass were at its CM). Zero dipolar PE (from definition of CM). Quadrupolar PE, source at P : - the first and most importantdeviationfrom monopolar Gravitational behaviour. ...

  11. (0) Monopolar axial Force, Fz Axial Force = • Test-mass shown as ‘wire frame’ cylinder. • Origin of polar co-ordinates at its CM. • R0 held constant, varied. • Lobe pattern of axial Force identical for all cylindrical test-masses—a positive and a negative sphere... • ...Force always attractive. • Low axial coupling from source-masses lying to the sides of the test-mass, as shown. q (0) F z • Arbitrary source-mass position. Unit source-mass.

  12. Axial Force =  (0) • Arbitrary source-mass position. • Test-mass shown as ‘wire frame’ cylinder. • R0 held constant, varied. • Resulting lobe pattern of quadrupolar axial Force is the same for all cylindrical test-masses—but lobes may have opposite signs. It is a figure of revolution about the z-axis (cylindrical symmetry). • Significant axial Force even when perturbing source-mass is almost at right-angles to axis thro’ CM of test-mass. • Gravitational quadrupolar Force can be repulsive. q (2) F z (2) Quadrupolar axial Force, Fz Unit source-mass.

  13. where a, b = a, b, c, and 1 (a = b). dab= 0 (ab). Quadrupolar coupling The quadrupolar PE can be written as: - a,b are defined to be the nine elements of the2nd rank symmetricmass quadrupole tensor; similarly… cf. are the elements of a body’s tensor of inertia, [J]. • Relative to the body’s principal axes of inertia (here, labelled: 1, 2, and 3) [J] has only 3 non-zero elements: J11, J22, andJ33.

  14. The mass quadrupole tensor • Relative to these same Principal Inertialaxes the gravitational mass quadrupole tensor of any body can be written simply in terms of the principal moments of inertia of that body: - • Therefore, if the body’s ‘ellipsoid of inertia’ is a sphere, then J11= J22 = J33, and there can be no quadrupolar gravitational interaction with this body (*MacCullagh’s formula). *James MacCullach (1809–47) Irish mathematician and physicist.

  15. F(2) Generally, a non-central Force. a vector a scalar axis A central Force thro’ the CM, but may be positive, zero, or negative. The quadrupolar Force (Unit source-mass.) • Quadrupolar Force: G is the Constant ofGravitation. is the (column) position vector of the point P measured from the CM of the test-mass, and is the corresponding transpose (row) vector. [mass  distance2] is the mass quadrupole moment of the test-mass (2nd rank tensor array). P source-mass [D]

  16. Mass distribution around a suspended test-mass • Test-suspension at MIT (dummy test-mass). • Glasgow silica-fibre suspension. • Mechanical structure is necessarily in close proximity to the suspended test-mass • Does its mass fall inside the quadrupolar lobes ? • What is the relative size of the quadrupolar force ?

  17. Local mass distribution example—the aLIGO suspension

  18. (2) (0) Example: magnitude of ratio Fz /Fz Test-mass b = 0.26 m (Radius ). = 0.14 m (Semi axial-length). • If the axial effect of a point perturbing source-mass is averaged over the spherical surface shown, having radius • R0 = 0.4 m, then • The ratio of the magnitude of the quadrupolar to monopolar axial gravitational forces is (in this example) Axial Force on test-mass,F z ; and this ratio

  19. Impact of 1 nm Radial or Angular movement of 1 kg source-mass on az Radial movement of source Angular movement of source

  20. Full moment expansion for test-mass (Unit source-mass.) n = 0: Monopole. n = 1: Quadrupole. n = 2: Hexadecapole. n = 3: 64-pole, etc. . . . • Very fast, computationally.

  21. Accuracy of the moment expansion 1 kg source-mass on-axis:

  22. All of the following Strathclyde papers were concerned with modelling the effects of local gravitational sources on cylindrical test-masses… Co-workers Alexey Veryaskin Xiaohui Xu Background work • References • 1. LOCKERBIE N.A. , Veryaskin A.V. and Xu X. “Differential gravitational coupling between cylindrically symmetric, concentric test masses, and an arbitrary gravitational source.”, Class.Quantum Grav.,10 (1993) 2419-2430 (12pp) • 2. LOCKERBIE N.A., XU X., and Veryaskin A.V. “Optimisation of immunity to helium tidal influences for the STEP experiment test-masses”, Class.Quantum Grav.,11 (1994) 1575-1590 (16pp.). • 3. LOCKERBIE N.A., XU X., and Veryaskin A.V. “Spherical Harmonic Representation of the Gravitational Coupling between a Truncated Sector of a Hollow Cylinder and an Arbitrary Gravitational Source: Relevance to the STEP Experiment” General Relativity and Gravitation,27, 11, 1215-1229 (1995) • LOCKERBIE N.A., XU X., and Veryaskin A.V. “The gravitational coupling between longitudinal segments of a hollow cylinder and an arbitrary gravitational source: relevance to the STEP experiment” Class.Quantum Grav.13 2041-2059 (1996) • 5. LOCKERBIE N.A. “The MiniSTEP Experiment” Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 61B 3– 5 (1998)…

  23. Background work, cont’d... 6. LOCKERBIE N.A. “A dynamical technique for measuring the gravitational quadrupole coupling of the STEP and SCOPE experimental test masses” Class. Quantum Grav., 17 4195–4206 (2000). 7. LOCKERBIE N.A., Mester J.C., Torii R., Vitale S., Worden P.W. “STEP: A Status Report”, In Gyros, Clocks, and Interferometers: Testing Relativity in Space Editors: -Claus Lämmerzahl, C.W. Francis Everitt, and Friedrich W. Hehl Springer-Verlag, pp 213–247 (2000). 8. LOCKERBIE N.A. “Dynamical measurements of the gravitational quadrupole coupling to experimental test masses” Class. Quantum Grav., 18 13 2521–2531 (2001). 9. “International Symposium on Testing the Equivalence Principle in Space, Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, 4–7 September, 2000” Guest Editor: LOCKERBIE N.A. Class. Quantum Grav., 18, 13 (2001) 10. LOCKERBIE N.A., “Gravitational quadrupolar coupling to equivalence principle test masses: the general case”, Class. Quantum Grav., 19 pp2063–2077, (2002). 11. LOCKERBIE N. A., Veryaskin A V, and Xu X, “Test mass design for the EP experiment on M3 STEP” Adv. Space Res.32 7 pp1339–1344 (2003)…

  24. If there are local gravitational sources perturbing the GW test-masses, their • axial effect will not be intuitively obvious; and the troublesome • Quadrupolar coupling is unlikely to be negligible out to distances > 0.4 m. However this form of Newtonian coupling • may be nulled through choice of test-mass dimensions ( ); but • does this impact the test-mass coating noise adversely ? • Moment expansion is very useful (computationally fast). • If test-mass dimensions must be retained, can any local, potentially interfering structures, be placed in and around the known Newtonian axial-coupling ‘notches’ of the test-masses ? • Can each test-mass have 6 (rather than 2) equally-spaced longitudinal ‘flats’ ? Conclusions

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