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SPT-3G+: A Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment for the South Pole Telescope
T. Natoli, Z. Ahmed, H. Athreya +72
SPT-3G+ is the next survey receiver planned to be installed in early 2029 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). This new receiver will feature 6,020 polarization-sensitive di…
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…
Detecting Light Dark Matter with Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Jiansong Gao, Yonit Hochberg, Benjamin V. Lehmann +4
Superconducting detectors are a promising technology for probing dark matter at extremely low masses, where dark matter interactions are currently unconstrained. Realizing the pote…
Characterization of NbTiN films with thicknesses below 20 nm for low power kinetic inductance amplifiers
A. Giachero, M. R. Vissers, J. D. Wheeler +6
A quantum-limited amplification chain is a fundamental advantage for any application that may benefit from the detection of very faint signals. Reading out arrays of superconductin…
The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters
The BLAST Observatory Collaboration, Gabriele Coppi, Simon Dicker +21
Sensitive wide-field observations of polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains will allow astronomers to address key outstanding questions about the life cycle of ma…
End-to-End Modeling of the TDM Readout System for CMB-S4
David C. Goldfinger, Zeeshan Ahmed, Darcy R. Barron +13
The CMB-S4 experiment is developing next-generation ground-based microwave telescopes to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background with unprecedented sensitivity. This will require a…
Improved microwave SQUID multiplexer readout using a kinetic-inductance traveling-wave parametric amplifier
M. Malnou, J. A. B. Mates, M. R. Vissers +5
We report on the use of a kinetic-inductance traveling-wave parametric amplifier (KITWPA) as the first amplifier in the readout chain of a microwave superconducting quantum interfe…
G4CMP: Condensed Matter Physics Simulation Using the Geant4 Toolkit
M. H. Kelsey, R. Agnese, Y. F. Alam +44
G4CMP simulates phonon and charge transport in cryogenic semiconductor crystals using the Geant4 toolkit. The transport code is capable of simulating the propagation of acoustic ph…
A tabletop x-ray tomography instrument for nanometer-scale imaging: demonstration of the 1,000-element transition-edge sensor subarray
Paul Szypryt, Nathan Nakamura, Daniel T. Becker +28
We report on the 1,000-element transition-edge sensor (TES) x-ray spectrometer implementation of the TOMographic Circuit Analysis Tool (TOMCAT). TOMCAT combines a high spatial reso…
Development of the Low Frequency Telescope Focal Plane Detector Modules for LiteBIRD
Benjamin Westbrook, Christopher Raum, Shawn Beckman +23
LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led strategic large-class satellite mission designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and Galactic foregrounds from 34 to 448 GHz a…
CCAT-prime: The 850 GHz camera for Prime-Cam on FYST
Scott C. Chapman, Anthony I. Huber, Adrian K. Sinclair +23
The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the Cerro-Chajnantor Atacama Telescope prime (CCAT- prime) Facility will host Prime-Cam as a powerful, first generation camera with…
CCAT-prime: Design of the Mod-Cam receiver and 280 GHz MKID instrument module
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +33
Mod-Cam is a first light and commissioning instrument for the CCAT-prime project's six-meter aperture Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), currently under construction at 560…
Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module
Erin Healy, Aamir M. Ali, Kam Arnold +28
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama…
Optomechanical ground-state cooling in a continuous and efficient electro-optic transducer
Benjamin M. Brubaker, Jonathan M. Kindem, Maxwell D. Urmey +6
The demonstration of a quantum link between microwave and optical frequencies would be an important step towards the realization of a quantum network of superconducting processors.…
CCAT-prime: Characterization of the First 280 GHz MKID Array for Prime-Cam
Steve K. Choi, Cody J. Duell, Jason Austermann +20
The Prime-Cam receiver on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope for the CCAT-prime project aims to address important astrophysical and cosmological questions with sensitive broadb…
Performance of a Kinetic-Inductance Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier at 4 Kelvin: Toward an Alternative to Semiconductor Amplifiers
M. Malnou, J. Aumentado, M. R. Vissers +4
Most microwave readout architectures in quantum computing or sensing rely on a semiconductor amplifier at 4 K, typically a high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT). Despite its rem…
Study of quasi-particle dynamics using the optical pulse response of asuperconducting resonator
J. Hu, Q. He, F. Yu +14
We study the optical pulse response of a superconducting half-wavelength coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonator. We apply a short optical pulse to the center strip of the CPW resonator…
CCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
Prime collaboration, M. Aravena, J. E. Austermann +84
We present a detailed overview of the science goals and predictions for the Prime-Cam direct detection camera/spectrometer being constructed by the CCAT-prime collaboration for ded…
Observations of compact sources in galaxy clusters using MUSTANG2
Simon R. Dicker, Elia S. Battistelli, Tanay Bhandarkar +26
Compact sources can cause scatter in the scaling relationships between the amplitude of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (tSZE) in galaxy clusters and cluster mass. Estimates…
A high-resolution view of the filament of gas between Abell 399 and Abell 401 from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and MUSTANG-2
Adam D. Hincks, Federico Radiconi, Charles Romero +43
We report a significant detection of the hot intergalactic medium in the filamentary bridge connecting the galaxy clusters Abell 399 and Abell 401. This result is enabled by a low-…
The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design
Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56
Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…
The Simons Observatory: the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT)
Zhilei Xu, Shunsuke Adachi, Peter Ade +57
The Simons Observatory (SO) is a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment to observe the microwave sky in six frequency bands from 30GHz to 290GHz. The Observatory -- at …
The Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Ningfeng Zhu, Tanay Bhandarkar, Gabriele Coppi +68
The Simons Observatory (SO) Large Aperture Telescope Receiver (LATR) will be coupled to the Large Aperture Telescope located at an elevation of 5,200 m on Cerro Toco in Chile. The…
Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission
L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232
LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…