Louisiana State University Physics & Astronomy

Joseph A. Giaime
Professor of Physics

Ph.D., 1995 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Office: 271-A Nicholson
Telephone: 5794-Office, 686-3169-LIGO
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Construction and use of a first-generation Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) , concentrating on the one in Livingston, Louisiana , a short drive from LSU. LIGO's science is organized by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, with member institutions around the world. LSU also is home to another gravitational-wave detector, ALLEGRO . LIGO, ALLEGRO, and my group at LSU are privileged to receive funding from the National Science Foundation.
Research on an advanced seismic isolation system that is under early development for the next-generation LIGO detectors. This work is in close collaboration with Stanford, JILA/Univ. of Colorado, MIT, and the LIGO Lab.
An experimental investigation of microscopic mechanical "creak" noise in stressed mechanical assemblies. This is for application to LIGO detector design, but may also be of general application to precision measurement science. This work is largely supported by a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents.

CURRENT AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

B. Abbott, et al., by LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars," [LIGO-P060011-03-Z, Feb. 2007, 21pp.], Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001 (2007).
B. Abbott, et al., by LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO," Astrophys. J. 659, 918-930 (2007).
e-Print: astr-ph/0605606
B. Abbott, et al., by LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Coherent searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the second LIGO science run," LIGO-P050008-03, May 2006, 35pp.
e-Print: gr-qc/0605028
B. Abbott, et al., by LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run," to appear in the proceedings of 6th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi6), Kise Nago, Okinawa, Japan, 20-24 June 2005, published in Class. Quant. Grav. 23, S29-S39 (2006).
e-Print: gr-qc/0511146
E.J. Daw, J.A. Giaime, D. Lormand, M. Lubinski, J. Zweizig, "Long term study of the seismic environment at LIGO," Class. Quant. Grav. 21, 2255-2273 (2004).
e-Print: gr-qc/0403046

Updated: Thu, 27-Sep-2007 3:21 PM