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An On-Sky Atmospheric Calibration of SPT-SLIM
K. R. Dibert, M. Adamic, A. J. Anderson +26
We present the methodology and results of the on-sky responsivity calibration of the South Pole Telescope Shirokoff Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM). SPT-SLIM is a pathfinder line…
Design and Performance of the SPT-SLIM Receiver Cryostat
M. R. Young, M. Adamic, A. J. Anderson +28
The South Pole Telescope Shirokoff Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM) is a millimeter-wavelength line-intensity mapping experiment, which was deployed on the South Pole Telescope (SP…
Spectral characterization and performance of SPT-SLIM on-chip filterbank spectrometers
C. S. Benson, K. Fichman, M. Adamic +26
The South Pole Telescope Shirokoff Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM) experiment is a pathfinder for demonstrating the use of on-chip spectrometers for millimeter (mm) Line Intensity…
A multi-channel silicon package for large-scale skipper-CCD experiments
A. M. Botti, C. Chavez, M. Sofo-Haro +10
The next generation of experiments for rare-event searches based on skipper Charge Coupled Devices (skipper-CCDs) presents new challenges for the sensor packaging and readout. Scal…
Low-loss Si-based Dielectrics for High Frequency Components of Superconducting Detectors
M. Lisovenko, Z. Pan, P. S. Barry +7
Silicon-based dielectric is crucial for many superconducting devices, including high-frequency transmission lines, filters, and resonators. Defects and contaminants in the amorphou…
Quasiparticle Generation-Recombination Noise in the Limit of Low Detector Volume
J. Li, P. S. Barry, T. Cecil +8
We have measured the quasiparticle generation-recombination (GR) noise in aluminium lumped element kinetic inductors with a wide range of detector volumes at various temperatures.…
Noise Optimization for MKIDs with Different Design Geometries and Material Selections
Z. Pan, K. R. Dibert, J. Zhang +13
The separation and optimization of noise components is critical to microwave-kinetic inductance detector (MKID) development. We analyze the effect of several changes to the lumped-…
Measurement of Dielectric Loss in Silicon Nitride at Centimeter and Millimeter Wavelengths
Z. Pan, P. S. Barry, T. Cecil +11
This work presents a suite of measurement techniques for characterizing the dielectric loss tangent across a wide frequency range from 1 GHz to 150 GHz using the same test ch…
Fabrication Development for SPT-SLIM, a Superconducting Spectrometer for Line Intensity Mapping
T. Cecil, C. Albert, A. J. Anderson +18
Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe…
Electromagnetic Properties of Aluminum-based Bilayers for Kinetic Inductance Detectors
G. Wang, P. S. Barry, T. Cecil +7
The complex conductivity of a superconducting thin film is related to the quasiparticle density, which depends on the physical temperature and can also be modified by external pair…
SPT-3G+: Mapping the High-Frequency Cosmic Microwave Background Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors
A. J. Anderson, P. Barry, A. N. Bender +28
We present the design and science goals of SPT-3G+, a new camera for the South Pole Telescope, which will consist of a dense array of 34100 kinetic inductance detectors measuring t…
Conceptual Design of the Modular Detector and Readout System for the CMB-S4 survey experiment
D. R. Barron, Z. Ahmed, J. Aguilar +47
We present the conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) ground-based survey experiment. CMB-S4 will map the…
Optical leakage mitigation in ortho-mode transducer detectors for microwave applications
Riccardo Gualtieri, Peter S. Barry, Thomas Cecil +5
Planar ortho-mode transducers (OMTs) are a commonly used method of coupling optical signals between waveguides and on-chip circuitry and detectors. While the ideal OMT-waveguide co…
Performance of a low-parasitic frequency-domain multiplexing readout
A. E. Lowitz, A. N. Bender, P. Barry +14
Frequency-domain multiplexing is a readout technique for transition edge sensor bolometer arrays used on modern CMB experiments, including the SPT-3G receiver. Here, we present des…