Speaker
Raffaele D'Agnolo
Description
I will discuss a simple unified formalism for GW detectors that captures the sensitivity of widely different apparatuses (PTAs, LIGO, Weber bars, cavities and more). This allows to estimate the ultimate reach on GWs from a specific detector and to identify the best detection strategies for particular frequency intervals. Interestingly, a few existing detector proposals violate our simple scaling rules, casting doubts on their feasibility, and a number of motivated signals seem well beyond the reach of our species.
