Publication Date:
2024-05-10
Description:
Cosmic-ray particles have long been studied as a potential source of noise for interferometric
gravitational-wave detectors. These particles, mostly muons at sea level, can interact with the
detector mirrors inducing thermal effects, which, at the detector output, could be observed as
transient excesses of noise, namely glitches. For the Advanced Virgo detector, the rate of these
particles is monitored by a muon telescope located in the vicinity of the detector central building.
We present here the correlation study of the rate of muons with the rate of glitches during a couple
of weeks at the end of the third joint LIGO-Virgo observing, O3. We also present the correlation
of the previous quantities with other environmental effects, showing how the latter dominate the
glitch rate and can explain a significant part of its variations.
Description:
Published
Description:
059
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OSA3: Climatologia e meteorologia spaziale
Description:
N/A or not JCR
Keywords:
virgo
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cosmic muons
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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