Deep VUV Scintillators for Detectors Working in Cryogenic Environment

Cryogenic scintillators in searches for extremely rare events

Inorganic scintillators are important elements of a new type of cryogenic phonon scintillation detector (CPSD) being developed for single particle detection. These detectors, exhibiting superior energy resolution and the ability to identify the type of interaction in an event, are considered to be the next generation of instrumentation in the search for extremely rare events. This paper present...

Cryogenic X-ray detectors for synchrotron science.

Cryogenic detectors operated at temperatures below 1 K offer an order of magnitude higher energy resolution than conventional semiconductor-based energy-dispersive detectors, and orders of magnitude higher efficiency that grating spectrometers. Initially developed for astrophysics applications, these detectors are increasingly used in synchrotron-based research, both for detector characterizati...

Indium joints for cryogenic gravitational wave detectors

A viable technique for the preparation of highly thermal conductive joints between sapphire components in gravitational wave detectors is presented. The mechanical loss of such a joint was determined to be as low as 2×10 at 20 K and 2×10 at 300 K. The thermal noise performance of a typical joint is compared to the requirements of the Japanese gravitational wave detector, KAGRA. It is shown ...

Multicomponent garnet film scintillators for SEM electron detectors

Cryogenic ASICs in GaAs for Applications with Particle Detectors

We present two cryogenic Application Specific Integrated circuits (ASIC's) realized with a GaAs MESFET process. A single-channel differential or double-channel singleended voltage sensitive preamplifier for 4.2 K operation, to be used with bolometric detectors, was realized and tested. A very simple structure working as a unity gain buffer or as a transconductance amplifier, or even as a shapin...