In February, our small team contributing to the Einstein Telescope actively participated in a working meeting with our colleagues from KAGRA, the Japanese Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector.
This included an exploration of its spectacular installations deep under the mountains of the Kamioka mine in Kamioka-cho, Hida-city, Gifu-prefecture.
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Our research for technological solutions for the Einstein Telescope is now featured in the “lookKIT” magazine (issue 2023/4).
It includes exceptional portraits like the one above and interviews of our three personnel committed to the project.
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We presented the status of KIT’s R&D activities for the Einstein Telescope at the III. CNRS Helmholtz Dark Matter Lab (DMLab) meeting in November 2023 at KIT.
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Since October 1, Ms. Sheila Rauch supports our team at the office. She is your contact in all administrative aspects and will be glad to help you. We are looking forward to a pleasant teamwork and wish Sheila Rauch a good start in her new position.
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We presented major advancements of our new current lead development for superconducting applications at the European Conference on Applied Superconductivity EUCAS in September 2023 in Bologna.
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The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed underground infrastructure to host a third-generation, gravitational-wave observatory. It builds on the success of current, second-generation laser-interferometric detectors Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO, whose breakthrough discoveries of merging black holes and neutron stars over the past 5 years have ushered scientists into the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy.
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Refrigeration processes operated with wide-boiling refrigerant mixtures known as cryogenic mixed-refrigerant cycles (CMRC) are an attractive technology for providing cooling capacity in the temperature range between 80 K and 200 K.
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The properties of cryogenic fluid mixtures are of fundamental importance for the development and optimisation of closed-cycle cryogenic cooling systems needed for applications of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) and for the liquefaction or re-liquefaction of low-boiling fluids.
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