Modeling and Characterization of TES-Based Detectors for the Ricochet Experiment

R. Chen*, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, G. Bratrud, C. L. Chang, L. Chaplinsky, E. Cudmore, W. Van De Pontseele, J. A. Formaggio, P. Harrington, S. A. Hertel, Z. Hong, K. T. Kennard, M. Li, M. Lisovenko, L. O. Mateo, D. W. Mayer, V. Novati, P. K. Patel, H. D. Pinckney, N. RahaF. C. Reyes, A. Rodriguez, B. Schmidt, J. Stachurska, C. Veihmeyer, G. Wang, L. Winslow, V. G. Yefremenko, J. Zhang

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Abstract

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) offers a valuable approach in searching for physics beyond the standard model. The Ricochet experiment aims to perform a precision measurement of the CEνNS spectrum at the Institut Laue–Langevin nuclear reactor with cryogenic solid-state detectors. The experiment plans to employ an array of cryogenic thermal detectors, each with a mass of around 30 g and an energy threshold of below 100 eV. The array includes nine detectors read out by transition-edge sensors (TES). These TES-based detectors will also serve as demonstrators for future neutrino experiments with thousands of detectors. In this article, we present an update on the characterization and modeling of a prototype TES detector.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)217-224
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume215
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2024

Funding

This work is supported in part by NSF Grant PHY-2209585, the Connaught Fund at the University of Toronto, and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund through the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute. This research was enabled in part by support provided by SciNet ( www.scinethpc.ca ) and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (alliancecan.ca). This work is part of R &D for Ricochet experiment and we would like to thank all members of Ricochet . This work made use of the NUFAB facility of Northwestern University\u2019s NUANCE Center, which has received support from the SHyNE Resource (NSF ECCS-2025633), the IIN, and Northwestern\u2019s MRSEC program (NSF DMR-1720139). Work at Argonne National Lab, including work performed at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics and Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. A portion of the work carried out at MIT was supported by a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DOE QuantISED award DE-SC0020181, the NSF under Grant PHY-2110569, and the Heising-Simons Foundation, United States.

Keywords

  • BSM physics
  • CEνNS
  • Cryogenic calorimeter
  • Neutrino
  • TES

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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