MIR Meeting on 2021/01/20 18:00 - 19:00
Participants: Matteo, Simon, Pengbo, Kokeyama, Haoyu, Michimura, Aso, Akutsu, Marco, Marc
Next meeting
2021 Feb 3rd, 18:00 - 19:00
Minutes
- recap on MIR activity
- Matteo had discussion with Shinkosha on how to proceed with future samples
- a solution may be to extract a 1cm slice from the Sapphire-bulb and analyze it at NAOJ
- if okay, Shinkosha proceeds with extracting a KAGRA-sized substrate
- issue: is 1cm enough for a decent analysis? can the slice' planes be parallel enough?
- discussion about stress-dislocation measurement
- recap by Marco about last meeting discussion
- report by Simon about how to extract beta angle from NAOJ birefringence measurement
- upgrade on the system at TAMA could be made after Feb 8. (if COVID situation relaxes)
- simulation status by Haoyu
- TWE maps used to create birefringence maps
- Zernicke residuals still present
- will compare results with existing brirefingence maps
Agenda
- update on stress-induced birefringence in Sapphire
- simulation status
- new sapphire bulk search
- meeting schedule