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A microwave SQUID multiplexing concept for macro-cryogenic calorimeter arrays
N. Ferreiro Iachellini, P. Szypryt, L. Canonica +10
Massive cryogenic calorimeters read out by transition-edge sensors (TES) can reach eV-scale baseline resolution, but the single-channel dc-SQUID readout conventionally used in rare…
Demonstration of a cryogenic, switchable electron source for low-temperature detector calibration
D. A. Bennett, M. Borghesi, P. Campana +17
We present the realization of a prototype of a compact, switchable electron source operating at cryogenic temperatures, demonstrated at energies ranging from 100 eV to 300 eV, and…
Characterization of Silicon-Membrane TES Microcalorimeters for Large-Format X-ray Spectrometers with Integrated Microwave SQUID Readout
Avirup Roy, Robinjeet Singh, Joel C. Weber +17
We present the electro-thermal characterization of transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors suspended on Si membranes fabricated using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. The use of…
Lithographic integration of TES microcalorimeters with SQUID multiplexer circuits for large format spectrometers
Robinjeet Singh, Avirup Roy, Daniel Becker +12
Arrays of hundreds or thousands of low temperature detectors have been deployed for many experiments, both bolometers for long wavelength applications and calorimeters for shorter…
Demonstration of a 1820 channel multiplexer for transition-edge sensor bolometers
J. C. Groh, Z. Ahmed, J. Austermann +16
The scalability of most transition-edge sensor arrays is limited by the multiplexing technology which combines their signals over a reduced number of wires and amplifiers. In this…
Phenomenological Modeling of the Ho Calorimetric Electron Capture Spectrum from the HOLMES Experiment
F. Ahrens, B. K. Alpert, D. T. Becker +46
We present a comprehensive phenomenological analysis of the calorimetric electron capture (EC) decay spectrum of Ho as measured by the HOLMES experiment. Using high-statist…
Kinetic inductance current sensor for visible to near-infrared wavelength transition-edge sensor readout
Paul Szypryt, Douglas A. Bennett, Ian Fogarty Florang +12
Single-photon detectors based on the superconducting transition-edge sensor are used in a number of visible to near-infrared applications, particularly for photon-number-resolving…
Crosstalk effects in microwave SQUID multiplexed TES bolometer readout
John C. Groh, Zeeshan Ahmed, Shawn W. Henderson +5
Transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers are broadly used for background-limited astrophysical measurements from the far-infrared to mm-waves. Many planned future instruments requir…
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…
ASCENT - A balloon-borne hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy telescope using transition edge sensor microcalorimeter detectors
Fabian Kislat, Daniel Becker, Douglas Bennett +26
Core collapse supernovae are thought to be one of the main sources in the galaxy of elements heavier than iron. Understanding the origin of the elements is thus tightly linked to o…
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…
Design of a 3000-pixel transition-edge sensor x-ray spectrometer for microcircuit tomography
Paul Szypryt, Douglas A. Bennett, William J. Boone +28
Feature sizes in integrated circuits have decreased substantially over time, and it has become increasingly difficult to three-dimensionally image these complex circuits after fabr…
Signal readout for Transition-Edge Sensor X-ray imaging spectrometers
H. Akamatsu, W. B. Doriese, J. A. B. Mates +1
Arrays of low-temperature microcalorimeters provide a promising technology for X-ray astrophysics: the imaging spectrometer. A camera with at least several thousand pixels, each of…
SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) Electronics: A tone-tracking readout system for superconducting microwave resonator arrays
Cyndia Yu, Zeeshan Ahmed, Josef C. Frisch +22
We describe the newest generation of the SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) electronics, a warm digital control and readout system for microwave-frequency resonator-based cryogenic det…
Absolute Energy Measurements with Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensors for Muonic X-ray Spectroscopy at 44 keV
Daikang Yan, Joel C. Weber, Tejas Guruswamy +25
Superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters have great utility in x-ray applications owing to their high energy resolution, good collecting efficiency and the fe…
Bandwidth and Aliasing in the Microwave SQUID Multiplexer
Cyndia Yu, Zeeshan Ahmed, Jake A. Connors +13
The microwave SQUID multiplexer (umux) has enabled higher bandwidth or higher channel counts across a wide range of experiments in particle physics, astronomy, and spectroscopy. Th…
The 511-CAM Mission: A Pointed 511 keV Gamma-Ray Telescope with a Focal Plane Detector Made of Stacked Transition Edge Sensor Microcalorimeter Arrays
Farzane Shirazi, Md. Arman Hossen, Daniel Becker +18
The 511 keV gamma-ray emission from the galactic center region may fully or partially originate from the annihilation of positrons from dark matter particles with electrons from th…
Quantification of 242Pu with a Microcalorimeter Gamma Spectrometer
David J. Mercer, Ryan Winkler, Katrina E. Koehler +18
We report measurements of the 103-keV and 159-keV gamma ray signatures of 242Pu using microcalorimetry. This is the first observation of these gamma rays in a non-destructive measu…
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…
New Experimentally Observable Gamma-ray Emissions from 241Am Nuclear Decay
Katrina E. Koehler, Michael D. Yoho, Matthew H. Carpenter +16
With the high resolution of microcalorimeter detectors, previously unresolvable gamma-ray lines are now clearly resolvable. A careful measurement of Am-241 decay with a large array…
The design of the Ali CMB Polarization Telescope receiver
Maria Salatino, Jason E. Austermann, Keith L. Thompson +72
Ali CMB Polarization Telescope (AliCPT-1) is the first CMB degree-scale polarimeter to be deployed on the Tibetan plateau at 5,250m above sea level. AliCPT-1 is a 90/150 GHz 72 cm…
Progress in the development of TES microcalorimeter detectors suitable for neutrino mass measurement
A. Giachero, B. Alpert, D. T. Becker +19
The HOLMES experiment will perform a precise calorimetric measurement of the end point of the Electron Capture (EC) decay spectrum of 163Ho in order to extract information on neutr…
The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers
Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +30
The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe…
A Microwave SQUID Multiplexer Optimized for Bolometric Applications
B. Dober, Z. Ahmed, K. Arnold +27
A microwave SQUID multiplexer (MUX) has been optimized for coupling to large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. We present the scalable cryogenic…