Welcome to BETIF/DIFAET Computing Infrastructure documentation!¶
The BETIF/DIFAET Collaboration is a joint effort between the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the Physics Department (DIFA) of the University of Bologna, with the objective of creating a computing infrastructure and analysis platform for the Einstein Telescope (ET) community.
ET is a proposed underground infrastructure to host a third-generation, gravitational-wave observatory. It builds on the success of current, second-generation laser-interferometric detectors Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO, whose breakthrough discoveries of merging black holes (BHs) and neutron stars over the past 5 years have ushered scientists into the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy. The Einstein Telescope will achieve a greatly improved sensitivity by increasing the size of the interferometer from the 3km arm length of the Virgo detector to 10km, and by implementing a series of new technologies. These include a cryogenic system to cool some of the main optics to 10 – 20K, new quantum technologies to reduce the fluctuations of the light, and a set of infrastructural and active noise-mitigation measures to reduce environmental perturbations.
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This project is under active development.