Alignment procedure for the VIRGO interferometer: Experimental results from the Frascati prototype

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 31-40

  Babusci, D ^a   Fang, H ^a   Giordano, G ^a   Matone, G ^a   Matone, L ^a   Sannibale, V ^a,b  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS;

ALIGNMENT METHODS; ANGULAR MISALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0041156724     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(96)00907-3     Document Type: Article

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