Abstract
Measurements are reported of the cross-correlation of spectra of differential position signals from the Fermilab Holometer, a pair of colocated 39 m long, high power Michelson interferometers with flat broadband frequency response in the MHz range. The instrument obtains sensitivity to high frequency correlated signals far exceeding any previous measurement in a broad frequency band extending beyond the 3.8 MHz inverse light-crossing time of the apparatus. The dominant but uncorrelated shot noise is averaged down over independent spectral measurements with 381 Hz frequency resolution to obtain sensitivity to stationary signals. For signal bandwidths , the sensitivity to strain or shear power spectral density of classical or exotic origin surpasses a milestone where is the Planck time.
- Received 9 May 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.111102
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