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Low-temperature mechanical dissipation of thermally evaporated indium film for use in interferometric gravitational wave detectors

Indium bonding is under consideration for use in the construction of cryogenic mirror suspensions in future gravitational wave detectors. This paper presents measurements of the mechanical loss of a thermally evaporated indium film over a broad range of frequencies and temperatures. It provides an estimate of the resulting thermal noise at 20 K for a typical test mass geometry for a cryogenic interferometric gravitational wave detector from an indium layer between suspension elements.

Murray, P. G., Martin, I. W., Cunningham, L., Craig, K., Hammond, G. D., Hofmann, G., … & Rowan, S. (2015). Low-temperature mechanical dissipation of thermally evaporated indium film for use in interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32(11), 115014.
https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/11/115014

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