The Einstein Telescope: Europe's Future in Gravitational Wave Physics

Prof. Dr. Achim Stahl
RWTH Aachen
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The current generation of gravitational wave detectors, the LIGO  telescopes in the U.S. and Virgo in Italy, successfully detected the first gravitational waves and led to a number of ground-breaking observations. Now Europe is preparing the next generation of  telescopes, the Einstein Telescope. I will briefly introduce gravitational waves and their sources, summarize some of the results,  and present the perspectives of the next generation. I will discuss  the principal of detection, the current limitations, and the  technological attempts to overcome these limitations.

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