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Virgo

Our research group is part of the Virgo and LIGO collaboration. We are located in the physics department of the University of Rome " Sapienza", Marconi building, group G23. Our group was born in 1970 with Guido Pizzella, who was encouraged by Edoardo Amaldi to start a research group devoted to the experimental side of gravitational waves search. Formerly our group was composed by experts in the low-temperature, electronic and advanced data analysis tecniques.

Since the first months, our group collaborated with the Stanford research group (Prof. William Fairbank) and the Louisiana group (Prof. William Hamilton) for the realisation of gravitational-waves antennas. Our group, built at CERN the gravitational waves antenna Explorer, cooled at 2K, which has taken data from 1989 to 2012. We have also realised the Nautilus antenna, currently hosted by the Frascati National laboratories. Nautilus has taken data until the 2015.

From 1995 our group collaborates in the realisation of the Virgo interferometer in Cascina (PI). Our principal tasks, consist of construction and characterization of the test masses suspensions, themal noise studies, detector characterisation and implementation jointly to the development of data analysis techinques for gravitaitonal waves searches.

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Websites:

• Virgo Rome

Thesis Opportunities:

For information regarding thesis opportunities, please visit our web page.

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Local Coordinator

Pia Astone

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