General Relativity Experiment
Maryland’s experimental gravity group carries out precision gravity experiments and develops highly sensitive gravity sensors. Our transducer is now reading out signals from Allegro at Louisiana State University, the only remaining resonant-mass gravitational-wave detector in the US. Our future experimentation includes the development of a gradiometer that will have an impact upon the fields of geophysics, resources exploration and navigation. In addition, we are collecting and analyzing data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Personnel
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  • Ho Jung Paik, Professor
  • Jean-Paul Richard, Professor Emeritus
  • Peter Shawhan, Assistant Professor

Research Areas
  • Transducers for Gravitational Radiation Detectors
  • Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer
  • Null Test of the Inverse Square Law and SEarch for a New Force
  • Searches for Gravitational Wave Signals in LIGO Data

    • Research Group Website: www.physics.umd.edu/GRE
 

Department of Physics

University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4111
Phone: 301.405.3401
Fax: 301.314.9525