Better measurement captured today.
Final result of CTN experiment as of June 4th 9 am:

with shear loss angle taken from Penn et al. which is 5.2 x 10-7. The limits are 90% confidence interval.
The analysis is attached. This result will be displayed in upcoming DAMOP conference and would be updated in paper if any lower measurement is made.
Adding Effecting Coating Loss Angle (Edit Fri Jun 5 18:23:32 2020 ):
If all layers have an effective coating loss angle, then using gwinc's calculation (Yam et al. Eq.1), we would have effective coating loss angle of:

This is worse than both Tantala (3.6e-4) and Silica (0.4e-4) currently in use at AdvLIGO.
Also, I'm unsure now if our definition of Bulk and Shear loss angle is truly same as the definitions of Penn et al. because they seem to get an order of magnitude lower coating loss angle from their bulk loss angle.
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