Possible Improvements of Gravitational Antennas
- 15 July 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 8 (2) , 359-361
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.8.359
Abstract
The optimization of a gravitational antenna is studied in this paper. It is shown that the gravitational cross section of a conical antenna is 20% larger than that of a cylindrical one. A conical antenna is less suitable for use with ceramic transducers; however, when capacitative detectors are employed, its sensitivity can be improved by a factor of about 5 with respect to cylindrical antennas.Keywords
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