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most citedEnergy Dependence of Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

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astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Superfluid-tight cryogenic receiver with continuous sub-Kelvin cooling for EXCLAIM

Sumit Dahal, Peter A. R. Ade, Christopher J. Anderson +67

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to survey star formation over cosmological time scales using intensity…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Optimization of an Optical Testbed for Characterization of EXCLAIM u-Spec Integrated Spectrometers

Maryam Rahmani, Emily M. Barrentine, Eric R. Switzer +19

We describe a testbed to characterize the optical response of compact superconducting on-chip spectrometers in development for the Experiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity…

astro-ph.IM2022

Optical Characterization & Testbed Development for μ-Spec Integrated Spectrometers

Maryam Rahmani, Alyssa Barlis, Emily M. Barrentine +21

This paper describes a cryogenic optical testbed developed to characterize u-Spec spectrometers in a dedicated dilution refrigerator (DR) system. u-Spec is a far-infrared integrate…

astro-ph.IM2022

Developing a New Generation of Integrated Micro-Spec Far Infrared Spectrometers for the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM)

Carolyn G. Volpert, Emily M. Barrentine, Mona Mirzaei +21

The current state of far-infrared astronomy drives the need to develop compact, sensitive spectrometers for future space and ground-based instruments. Here we present details of th…

astro-ph.IM2022

Operational Optimization to Maximize Dynamic Range in EXCLAIM Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Trevor M. Oxholm, Eric R. Switzer, Emily M. Barrentine +11

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are highly scalable detectors that have demonstrated nearly background-limited sensitivity in the far-infrared from high-altitude bal…

physics.ins-det2019★ 25 cited

Working principle and demonstrator of microwave-multiplexing for the HOLMES experiment microcalorimeters

D. T. Becker, D. A. Bennett, M. Biasotti +21

The determination of the neutrino mass is an open issue in modern particle physics and astrophysics. The direct mass measurement is the only theory-unrelated experimental tool capa…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

SOFIA - HIRMES: Looking forward to the HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer

Samuel N. Richards, Samuel H. Moseley, Gordon Stacey +48

The HIgh-Resolution Mid-infrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES) is the 3rd Generation Instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), currently in development a…

physics.ins-det2018★ 24 cited

Status of the HOLMES Experiment to Directly Measure the Neutrino Mass

A. Nucciotti, B. Alpert, M. Balata +35

The assessment of neutrino absolute mass scale is still a crucial challenge in today particle physics and cosmology. Beta or electron capture spectrum end-point study is currently…

physics.ins-det2017★ 10 cited

Microstructure analysis of bismuth absorbers for transition-edge sensor X-ray microcalorimeters

Daikang Yan, Ralu Divan, Lisa M. Gades +16

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) as microcalorimeters offer high resolving power, owning to their sharp response and low operating temperature. In the hard X-ray regime and above, th…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 55 cited

Microwave SQUID Multiplexer demonstration for Cosmic Microwave Background Imagers

B. Dober, D. T. Becker, D. A. Bennett +10

Key performance characteristics are demonstrated for the microwave SQUID multiplexer (MUX) coupled to transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers that have been optimized for cosmic…

physics.ins-det2017★ 41 cited

Eliminating the non-Gaussian spectral response of X-ray absorbers for transition-edge sensors

Daikang Yan, Ralu Divan, Lisa M. Gades +16

Transition-edge sensors (TES) as microcalorimeters for high-energy-resolution X-ray spectroscopy are often fabricated with an absorber made of materials with high Z (for X-ray stop…

physics.ins-det2016★ 15 cited

Measuring the electron neutrino mass with improved sensitivity: the HOLMES experiment

A. Giachero, B. Alpert, D. Becker +39

HOLMES is a new experiment aiming at directly measuring the neutrino mass with a sensitivity below 2 eV. HOLMES will perform a calorimetric measurement of the energy released in th…

physics.ins-det2016★ 1 cited

First application of superconducting transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeters to hadronic-atom x-ray spectroscopy

S. Okada, D. A. Bennett, C. Curceanu +35

High-resolution pionic-atom x-ray spectroscopy was performed with an x-ray spectrometer based on a 240-pixel array of superconducting transition-edge-sensor (TES) microcalorimeters…

physics.ins-det2016★ 2 cited

Development of microwave-multiplexed superconductive detectors for the HOLMES experiment

A. Giachero, D. Becker, D. A. Bennett +15

In recent years, the progress on low temperature detector technologies has allowed design of large scale experiments aiming at pushing down the sensitivity on the neutrino mass bel…

physics.ins-det2016★ 33 cited

Absolute Energy Calibration of X-ray TESs with 0.04 eV Uncertainty at 6.4 keV in a Hadron-Beam Environment

H. Tatsuno, W. B. Doriese, D. A. Bennett +31

A performance evaluation of superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) in the environment of a pion beam line at a particle accelerator is presented. Averaged across the 209 fu…

physics.data-an2015★ 27 cited

Algorithms for Identification of Nearly-Coincident Events in Calorimetric Sensors

B. Alpert, E. Ferri, D. Bennett +9

For experiments with high arrival rates, reliable identification of nearly-coincident events can be crucial. For calorimetric measurements to directly measure the neutrino mass suc…

physics.ins-det2015★ 42 cited

Development of holmium-163 electron-capture spectroscopy with transition-edge sensors

M. P. Croce, M. W. Rabin, V. Mocko +16

Calorimetric decay energy spectroscopy of electron-capture-decaying isotopes is a promising method to achieve the sensitivity required for electron neutrino mass measurement. The v…

physics.ins-det2014★ 146 cited

HOLMES - The Electron Capture Decay of 163Ho to Measure the Electron Neutrino Mass with sub-eV sensitivity

B. Alpert, M. Balata, D. Bennett +35

The European Research Council has recently funded HOLMES, a new experiment to directly measure the neutrino mass. HOLMES will perform a calorimetric measurement of the energy relea…

nucl-ex2013★ 107 cited

Suppression of Upsilon Production in d+Au and Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev +354

We report measurements of Upsilon meson production in p+p, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions using the STAR detector at RHIC. We compare the Upsilon yield to the measured cross section in…

nucl-ex2013★ 80 cited

production at low in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at = 200 GeV at STAR

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +352

The $\jpsi$ $\pt$ spectrum and nuclear modification factor ($\raa$) are reported for $\pt < 5 \ \gevc$ and from 0\% to 60\% central Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\snn = 20…

nucl-ex2013★ 468 cited

Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +352

We report the beam energy (\sqrt s_{NN} = 7.7 - 200 GeV) and collision centrality dependence of the mean (M), standard deviation (σ), skewness (S), and kurtosis (κ) of the net-prot…

nucl-ex2013★ 1 cited

Jet-Hadron Correlations in sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV p+p and Central Au+Au Collisions

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +351

Azimuthal angular correlations of charged hadrons with respect to the axis of a reconstructed (trigger) jet in Au+Au and p+p collisions at i…

nucl-ex2013★ 11 cited

Fluctuations of charge separation perpendicular to the event plane and local parity violation in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +363

Previous experimental results based on data (15 million events) collected by the STAR detector at RHIC suggest event-by-event charge separation fluctuations perpendicular to the ev…

nucl-ex2013★ 24 cited

Freeze-out Dynamics via Charged Kaon Femtoscopy in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Central Au+Au Collisions

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +363

We present measurements of three-dimensional correlation functions of like-sign low transverse momentum kaon pairs from sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. A Cartesian surface-sphe…