Superconducting Technologies for Dark Matter

Session

Readout

12 May 2026, 17:20

Roma

Conveners

Readout

• Angelo Cruciani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18. Data Acquisition Systems for High Energy Physics and Quantum Sensors

Frank Simon

12/05/2026, 17:20

Data acquisition systems are an essential backbone of modern experiments, in many cases defining overall performance in terms of data output and experimental statistics. Experiments at high-energy particle colliders, which push the limits of overall data throughput, and dark matter searches and precision experiments with often stringent constraints on physical connections and power budget in...

16. SMuRF and SPECTRA: scalable readout for superconducting dark matter sensors

Zeesh Ahmed (Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC/Stanford)

12/05/2026, 17:45

The SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) electronics is a warm readout platform deployed at scale in CMB experiments to drive ~2000-channel microwave SQUID multiplexed transition-edge sensor arrays. Building on this foundation, the platform is being extended to support a broader range of superconducting sensors relevant to dark matter and rare-event searches, including fast pulse reconstruction in...

19. Readout technology for superconducting dark matter searches

Joel Ullom

12/05/2026, 18:10

The diverse and challenging requirements of dark matter searches motivate the development of new readout technologies. Relevant performance metrics include input noise, frequency range, bandwidth, resistance to magnetic field, and compatibility with a variety of sensors and sensor architectures. In this presentation I describe work at NIST on several superconducting readout technologies...