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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
High-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed transition-edge sensor array
Omid Noroozian, John A. B. Mates, Douglas A. Bennett +10
We demonstrate very high resolution photon spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed two-pixel transition-edge sensor (TES) array. We measured a Gd photon source and achiev…