Displacement-noise-free neutron interferometer for gravitational wave detection using a single Mach-Zehnder configuration
Abstract
The improvement of sensitivity to gravitational waves (GWs) at lower frequencies is still challenging on account of displacement noise. One of the solutions is the neutron displacement-noise-free interferometer (DFI). We focus on a simplification of the detector configuration by taking advantage of the ability to adjust the neutron speed depending on the configuration. The new configuration consists of two beamsplitters and two mirrors, which constitute a single Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). It is simpler than the configuration with two MZIs in previous research. All displacement noise of mirrors and beamsplitters can be canceled in the frequency domain. This cancellation can be explained intuitively using a phasor diagram.
Additional Information
© 2022 Elsevier. Received 16 February 2022, Revised 10 April 2022, Accepted 16 April 2022, Available online 22 April 2022, Version of Record 27 April 2022. We would like to thank Rick Savage for English editing. This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant Number JP19K21875. A. N. is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Nos. JP19H01894 and JP20H04726 and by Research Grants from Inamori Foundation. CRediT authorship contribution statement. Shoki Iwaguchi: Writing – original draft, Visualization, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Conceptualization. Atsushi Nishizawa: Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis. Yanbei Chen: Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation. Yuki Kawasaki: Writing – review & editing. Masaaki Kitaguchi: Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Investigation. Taigen Morimoto: Writing – review & editing. Tomohiro Ishikawa: Writing – review & editing. Bin Wu: Writing – review & editing. Izumi Watanabe: Writing – review & editing. Ryuma Shimizu: Writing – review & editing. Hirohiko Shimizu: Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Investigation. Yuta Michimura: Writing – review & editing. Seiji Kawamura: Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Supervision, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Conceptualization. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20220513-557869000
- JP19K21875
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JP19H01894
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JP20H04726
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Inamori Foundation
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2022-05-16Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Caltech groups
- Astronomy Department, LIGO