Conveners
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
- juan estrada (fermilab)
- Karl Berggren (MIT)
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors: Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
- juan estrada (fermilab)
- Karl Berggren (MIT)
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors: Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
- Karl Berggren (MIT)
- juan estrada (fermilab)
Tom Cecil
(Argonne)
12/8/19, 4:30 PM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides a unique window on the physics of the early Universe probing a variety of fundamental physics such as primordial gravitational waves and neutrino masses. Many of the advances in the field of CMB science have been enabled by advances in detector technology. Ground-based CMB experiments have seen order of magnitude increases in detector count with...
Dr
Ouellet Jonathan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12/8/19, 5:10 PM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
The last few years have seen rapid growth in the application of quantum based sensors for the study of fundamental physics. In particular, transition edge sensors read out by SQUID sensors have been used extensively to improve the noise resolution of CMB telescopes, X-ray calorimeters, and other microbolometer based experiments. Macrobolometers — bolometers with large masses — are a powerful...
Dr
Kirit Karkare
(University of Chicago)
12/8/19, 5:25 PM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
Line intensity mapping is an emerging observational technique to measure the large-scale structure of the Universe in three dimensions, traced by a redshifted emission line, without resolving individual objects. Future experiments promise to extend the observable volume beyond the redshift reach of traditional galaxy surveys, improving precision on the LCDM cosmological model and extensions...
Matthew Shaw
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
12/8/19, 5:40 PM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) are the highest performing detectors available for time-resolved single photon counting from the UV to the mid-infrared. In this talk, we will review recent progress in SNSPD technology, including development of SNSPD arrays for the ground receiver of the NASA Deep Space Optical Communication project. We will discuss recent progress...
Alex Drlica-Wagner
(Fermilab)
12/8/19, 6:00 PM
Photodetectors
Talk
Cosmic surveys study the fundamental physics governing dark energy and dark matter, which together comprise 95% of the Universe. To expand our knowledge of the dark sector, next-generation cosmic survey experiments will necessarily observe fainter and more distant systems. In this signal-limited regime, readout noise can become a driving factor in observational sensitivity. Skipper CCDs can...
Dr
Jeffrey Chiles
(NIST)
12/10/19, 9:00 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
We present recent results on the design, fabrication and testing of multilayer optical haloscopes integrated with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for detecting bosonic dark matter particle candidates. In this scheme, we look for dark matter (such as dark photons) with rest mass energies in the range of meV to 10 eV. Highly uniform dielectric/semiconductor stacks are...
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Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors and their performance in strong magnetic fields
Mr
Tomas Polakovic
(Argonne National Lab & Drexel University)
12/10/19, 9:20 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPD) have found applications in many fields, including nanophotonics, quantum communication and computing. They feature near-unity quantum efficiency, picosecond timing jitter and GHz count rates, which makes them promising candidates for future nuclear and high energy physics applications.
Towards the goal of implementing this technology in...
Dr
Ilya Charaev
(MIT)
12/10/19, 9:35 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
In recent years, the development of fast and low-dark-count single-photon detectors for photonic quantum information applications promise a radical improvement in our capacity to search for dark matter. The advent of superconducting nanowire detectors, which have fewer than 10 dark counts per day and have demonstrated sensitivity from the mid-infrared to the ultraviolet wavelength band,...
Dr
Varun Verma
(NIST)
12/10/19, 9:50 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
We will present recent developments and new applications for superconducting nanowire single photon detectors including integration with ion traps, kilopixel-scale arrays, and optimization for the mid-infrared for applications in molecular spectroscopy.
Dr
Noah Kurinsky
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
12/10/19, 10:05 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
In the last year, SuperCDMS has demonstrated multiple detectors with <3 eV resolution with masses from 0.25 to 10g, and we are operating multiple prototype detectors which we expect to achieve sub-eV resolutions. This is the result of an R&D program to fabricate low-Tc TES readout and improve energy collection efficiency of our devices. In addition, a subset of these detectors has demonstrated...
Dr
Woohyun Chung
(IBS/CAPP)
12/10/19, 10:25 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
A high Q-factor microwave resonator in a high magnetic field could be of great use in a wide range of fields, from accelerator design to axion dark matter search. IBS/CAPP in Korea is one of those who would like to enhance the sensitivity to detect dark matter axions by boosting the Q-factor of the resonant cavity, taking advantage of a recent advance of high temperature superconductor (HTS)...
Prof.
Robert McDermott
(UW-Madison)
12/10/19, 11:00 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
The Josephson photomultiplier (JPM) is the microwave-frequency analog of the avalanche photodiode: absorption a single photon induces a transition between distinct macroscopic states, resulting in an easily measured “click”. In the most common implementation, the junction plasma resonance is tuned to the desired detection frequency, and photon absorption enables a tunneling transition between...
Akash Dixit
(University of Chicago)
12/10/19, 11:20 AM
Harold Pinckney
(University of Massachusetts)
12/10/19, 11:40 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
HeRALD, the Helium Roton Apparatus for Light Dark Matter, will use a superfluid 4He target to study the sub-GeV dark matter parameter space. The HeRALD design is sensitive to all signal channels produced by nuclear recoils in superfluid helium: singlet and triplet excimers, as well as phonon-like excitations of the superfluid medium. Excimers are detected via calorimetry in and around the...
Dr
Young JIn Kim
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12/10/19, 11:55 AM
Quantum and Superconducting Detectors
Talk
Atomic magnetometers based on lasers and alkali-metal vapor cells are currently the most sensitive non-cryogenic magnetic-field sensors. Because of high sensitivity and simple turn-key operation, atomic magnetometers benefit many applications, including biomedical imaging and fundamental physics. In this talk, we will present the recent activities on dark matter and fundamental physics...
