IUVSTA Workshop 109 APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics - Industry meets Academia

Session

Session 6: Gravitational Waves (Chair: Achim Stahl)

25 Nov 2025, 14:00

Sint-Janskerk (Maastricht, NL )

38. The Virgo Vacuum System and Next-Phase Upgrades

Antonio Pasqualetti (European Gravitational Observatory)

25/11/2025, 14:00

Invited plenary talk

Virgo is currently operating in the O4b data-taking phase, ongoing for over one year and regularly detecting gravitational-wave signals. In parallel, several hardware upgrades are being prepared to enhance the detector sensitivity for the next data-taking phase O5. Among these, significant upgrades are planned for the vacuum system. Here we give a quick overview of the overall vacuum system...

37. ET @ CERN (beam line)

Dr Carlo Scarcia (CERN)

25/11/2025, 14:30

Invited plenary talk

Building upon the success of the LIGO and Virgo experiments in gravitational wave (GW) detection, the GW community is now setting its sights on new laser interferometers capable of detecting GWs from cosmological events spanning a much larger volume of the universe and occurring in its early phases. In pursuit of this objective, the European community has proposed the construction of the...

24. ET tower (vac & cryo)

Fulvio Ricci (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

25/11/2025, 15:00

Invited plenary talk