{"id":1004,"date":"2021-12-07T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/?page_id=1004"},"modified":"2022-09-22T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:30:58","slug":"gravity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eppg.ugent.be\/index.php\/gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Experimental Particle Physics group at Ghent University group has recently been broadened into a group working on Experimental Particle Physics and Gravity<\/strong> with the inclusion of gravitational waves. The Gravity Ghent Group<\/a> is a sub-division pioneering this research. Members of the group are involved with Virgo<\/a> instrumentation, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data analysis, and Observational Science with the Einstein Telescope<\/a>. Ghent University is a founding partner of the ETPathfinder<\/a> project, and members of the group take part in the instrumentation developments related to this facility in Maastricht. Ghent University is also one of the initial members of the recently-established Einstein Telescope Collaboration<\/a>. A brief description of the gravitational wave research in Ghent University can be found below. Detailed information is also available on the webpage of the Gravity Ghent Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Advanced Virgo<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Advanced Virgo<\/a> is an interferometric gravitational wave detector located in Cascina, near Pisa, in Italy. The data from the Virgo detector is analyzed together with the detector from the Advanced LIGO<\/a> detectors in the USA and the KAGRA detector in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghent involvement<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ghent University is a member of the Virgo Collaboration as part of the Belgian BelGrav<\/strong> Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ghent Gravity Group is involved in Virgo instrumentation and data analysis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n