https://gwic.ligo.org/ News GWIC is now an IUPAP Working group (WG11) GWIC thesis Prize named after Stefano Braccini (and published in the Springer Theses series) EC elected GWIC Chair for another two-years mandate

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ROG Collaboration 2014 www.lnf.infn.it/esperimenti/rog 5.7 FTE fisici LNF: Giordano Marini Ronga ROMA Tor Vergata: Bassan Coccia D’Antonio Fafone Minenkov Moleti Rocchi Visco ROMA: Astone DTZ2 Bonifazi Frasca ROG Collaboration 2014 5.7 FTE fisici 2.5 FTE tecnici www.lnf.infn.it/esperimenti/rog

NAUTILUS LNF - FRASCATI Bar Al 5056 M = 2270 kg L = 2.91 m Ø = 0.6 m nA=935Hz @ T = 3 K Cosmic ray detector

The three Records of NAUTILUS Coldest massive detector 2.5 tons at 90 mK Europhys. Lett.16, 231 (1991) First acoustic detection of cosmic rays Proving the Cabibbo thermo-acoustic theory Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 14 (2000) Longest science run for GW detectors 10 years continuous data taking Phys. Rev. D 82, 22003 (2010) Phys. Rev. D87 082002 (2013)

Peak sensitivity displacement strain

NAUTILUS 2013 NAUTILUS ha raccolto dati in modo continuativo come da molti anni a questa parte. Il duty cycle è limitato essenzialmente dalle operazioni di manutenzione criogenica e supera il 90%. I dati hanno qualità costante e non sono influenzati dalle normali attività naturali e umane. Temperatura di rumore ~ 1 mK 2 nuove pubblicazioni

Phys. Rev. D87 (2013) 082002 ICRC 2013

Phys. Rev. D87 (2013) 082002 April 2007- June 2010

Nautilus is equipped with streamer tubes Nautilus as a particle detector Cabibbo – De Rujula theory: Interaction of a particle with a bar: ionization energy lost is converted in thermal heating and therefore pressure wave. The detection mechanism is quite simple, no threshold in β “calorimetric measurement” Nautilus is equipped with streamer tubes particle detectors Nautilus is able to detect energy releases as low as 10-7 eV (10-26 J) by measuring the excitation of the longitudinal mode of vibration. Cosmic rays: observed Exotic form of matter: observable Upper limit for nuclearite flux from the Rome GW resonant detectors Phys.Rev. D47:4770-4773, 1993 Cosmic rays observed by NAUTILUS Phys.Rev.Lett. 84:14-17, 2000. Detection of high energy cosmic rays with NAUTILUS Astropart.Phys. 30:200-208, 2008.

In Nautilus T=0.14 K >1 order of magnitude in energy Thermo-acoustic effect and Cosmic ray detection in Nautilus and Explorer “enhancement at T=0.14Kelvin” an “event” in the antenna language --> signal many sigma above noise (~10 mKelvin or more) adding the antenna output for many cosmic ray signals and subtracting the background out of time we have sensitivity for very small signals (~0.01 mKelvin) 0.14 K 445MeV In this plot you see directly the enhancement due to superconductive state. The RAP experiment using a particle beam has confirmed the thermo-acoustic model for T>Tc. For T<Tc RAP has measured an enhancement similar to Nautilus. This is due to superconductive effects. 3 K 44.5MeV In Nautilus T=0.14 K >1 order of magnitude in energy

for AURIGA and NAUTILUS AURIGA - LNL NAUTILUS - LNF Data Taking AUNA We are here ´06 ´07 ´08 ´09 ´10 ´11 ´12 ´13 ´14 ´15 ´16 ´17 ´18 ´19 ´20 ´21 ´22 Virgo GEO LIGO LISA E.T. Virgo+ Advanced Virgo GEO HF Hanford LIGO+ Advanced LIGO Livingston Launch Transfer data DS PCP Construction Commissioning data Window of opportunity for AURIGA and NAUTILUS 14

ATTIVITA’ 2014 NAUTILUS continua la presa dati, coordinandosi con AURIGA nell’ambito dell’accordo AuNa. Correlazioni previste di AuNA con Geo in conseguenza di trigger astrofisico • Richiesta ROG 2014: 139 kEuro (Elio ed Azoto per Nautilus, turni, rivelatori di cosmici) livello minimo