Conveners
Cryogenic, Superconductive and Quantum Devices
- Francesco Giazotto (NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Valter Bonvicini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Cryogenic, Superconductive and Quantum Devices
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CUPID is a proposed upgrade to the ton-scale neutrinoless double beta decay experiment, CUORE which is currently operating at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The primary background in CUORE are degraded $\alpha$'s, and CUPID aims to improve this background by over a factor of 100 via a two channel energy collection approach using scintillation light and heat. This will allow...
Noise at the quantum limit over a large bandwidth is a fundamental requirement in forthcoming particle physics applications operating at low temperatures, such as neutrino measurements, x-ray observations, CMB measurements, and axion dark matter detection---involving MKIDs, TESs and microwave resonant cavity detectors---as well as in quantum technology applications, as the high-fidelity...
Spectral information and imaging with photon wavelengths longer than 1.1 µm (equivalent to Si bandgap) become highly valued in astronomical applications. Thin-film-based image sensors are considered as one of the next-generation imaging platforms for this long-wavelength spectral range that cannot be covered by Si image sensors. Colloidal Quantum Dot (CQD)-based imagers are appealing due to...
Large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) X-ray microcalorimeters are becoming the key technology for space and ground-based observatory in the field of astrophysics, laboratory astrophysics, particle-physics, plasma physics and material analysis. TES based X-ray detectors are non-dispersive spectrometers bringing together high-resolving power, imaging capability and...
BULLKID (Bulky and low-threshold kinetic inductance detectors) is an R&D project on an innovative cryogenic particle detector to search for low-energy nuclear recoils induced by neutrino coherent scattering or Dark Matter interactions. The detector unit consists of an array of 60 silicon absorbers of 0.3 g each sensed by phonon-mediated, microwave-multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors. The...
Advances in superconducting detector arrays are driving progress in the field of cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements. In the last decade ground-based CMB projects have employed arrays of thousands of superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESes) to make great progress in cosmological constraints from early universe inflation to the Hubble expansion rate. These arrays are operated...
