Overview of KAGRA: Detector design and construction history
Instrumentation and Detectors
2020-07-06 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
KAGRA is a newly built gravitational-wave telescope, a laser interferometer comprising arms with a length of 3\,km, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. KAGRA was constructed under the ground and it is operated using cryogenic mirrors that help in reducing the seismic and thermal noise. Both technologies are expected to provide directions for the future of gravitational-wave telescopes. In 2019, KAGRA finished all installations with the designed configuration, which we call the baseline KAGRA. In this occasion, we present an overview of the baseline KAGRA from various viewpoints in a series of of articles. In this article, we introduce the design configurations of KAGRA with its historical background.
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@article{arxiv.2005.05574,
title = {Overview of KAGRA: Detector design and construction history},
author = {T. Akutsu and M. Ando and K. Arai and Y. Arai and S. Araki and A. Araya and N. Aritomi and Y. Aso and S. -W. Bae and Y. -B. Bae and L. Baiotti and R. Bajpai and M. A. Barton and K. Cannon and E. Capocasa and M. -L. Chan and C. -S. Chen and K. -H. Chen and Y. -R. Chen and H. -Y. Chu and Y-K. Chu and S. Eguchi and Y. Enomoto and R. Flaminio and Y. Fujii and M. Fukunaga and M. Fukushima and G. -G. Ge and A. Hagiwara and S. Haino and K. Hasegawa and H. Hayakawa and K. Hayama and Y. Himemoto and Y. Hiranuma and N. Hirata and E. Hirose and Z. Hong and B. -H. Hsieh and G. -Z. Huang and P. -W. Huang and Y. -J. Huang and B. Ikenoue and S. Imam and K. Inayoshi and Y. Inoue and K. Ioka and Y. Itoh and K. Izumi and K. Jung and P. Jung and T. Kajita and M. Kamiizumi and N. Kanda and G. -W. Kang and K. Kawaguchi and N. Kawai and T. Kawasaki and C. Kim and J. Kim and W. Kim and Y. -M. Kim and N. Kimura and N. Kita and H. Kitazawa and Y. Kojima and K. Kokeyama and K. Komori and A. K. H. Kong and K. Kotake and C. Kozakai and R. Kozu and R. Kumar and J. Kume and C. -M. Kuo and H. -S. Kuo and S. Kuroyanagi and K. Kusayanagi and K. Kwak and H. -K. Lee and H. -W. Lee and R. -K. Lee and M. Leonardi and C. -Y. Lin and F. -L. Lin and L. C. -C. Lin and G. -C. Liu and L. -W. Luo and M. Marchio and Y. Michimura and N. Mio and O. Miyakawa and A. Miyamoto and Y. Miyazaki and K. Miyo and S. Miyoki and S. Morisaki and Y. Moriwaki and K. Nagano and S. Nagano and K. Nakamura and H. Nakano and M. Nakano and R. Nakashima and T. Narikawa and R. Negishi and W. -T. Ni and A. Nishizawa and Y. Obuchi and W. Ogaki and J. J. Oh and S. -H. Oh and M. Ohashi and N. Ohishi and M. Ohkawa and K. Okutomi and K. Oohara and C. -P. Ooi and S. Oshino and K. -C. Pan and H. -F. Pang and J. Park and F. E. Peña Arellano and I. Pinto and N. Sago and S. Saito and Y. Saito and K. Sakai and Y. Sakai and Y. Sakuno and S. Sato and T. Sato and T. Sawada and T. Sekiguchi and Y. Sekiguchi and S. Shibagaki and R. Shimizu and T. Shimoda and K. Shimode and H. Shinkai and T. Shishido and A. Shoda and K. Somiya and E. J. Son and H. Sotani and R. Sugimoto and T. Suzuki and T. Suzuki and H. Tagoshi and H. Takahashi and R. Takahashi and A. Takamori and S. Takano and H. Takeda and M. Takeda and H. Tanaka and K. Tanaka and K. Tanaka and T. Tanaka and T. Tanaka and S. Tanioka and E. N. Tapia San Martin and S. Telada and T. Tomaru and Y. Tomigami and T. Tomura and F. Travasso and L. Trozzo and T. T. L. Tsang and K. Tsubono and S. Tsuchida and T. Tsuzuki and D. Tuyenbayev and N. Uchikata and T. Uchiyama and A. Ueda and T. Uehara and K. Ueno and G. Ueshima and F. Uraguchi and T. Ushiba and M. H. P. M. van Putten and H. Vocca and J. Wang and C. -M. Wu and H. -C. Wu and S. -R. Wu and W. -R. Xu and T. Yamada and Ka. Yamamoto and Ko. Yamamoto and T. Yamamoto and K. Yokogawa and J. Yokoyama and T. Yokozawa and T. Yoshioka and H. Yuzurihara and S. Zeidler and Y. Zhao and Z. -H. Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05574},
year = {2020}
}
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33 pages, 10 figures