3 papers
physics.ins-det2026
Radiopurity material assays and radiation exposure projections for superconducting qubit measurements at SNOLAB
Y. Ahmed, B. Binoy, R. Bunker +21
Interactions of cosmic rays and other forms of ionizing radiation pose a significant challenge to the reliable operation of state-of-the-art quantum devices and error correction in…
physics.ins-det2025
Scintillation of liquid nitrogen
L. Pagani, R. Saldanha, B. M. Loer +3
Liquid nitrogen is commonly used in cryogenic applications and is a promising medium for the direct immersion cooling of sensors used for nuclear and particle physics experiments.…
quant-ph2024
Spectroscopic measurements and models of energy deposition in the substrate of quantum circuits by natural ionizing radiation
Joseph W. Fowler, Paul Szypryt, Raymond Bunker +16
Naturally occurring background radiation is a source of correlated decoherence events in superconducting qubits that will challenge error-correction schemes. To characterize the ra…