Superconducting nano-strip particle detectors

Nano-Optical Studies of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors integrated with optical nano-antennae.

Optical nano-antennae have been integrated with semiconductor lasers to intensify light at the nanoscale and photodiodes to enhance photocurrent. In quantum optics, plasmonic metal structures have been used to enhance nonclassical light emission from single quantum dots. Absorption and detection of single photons from free space could also be enhanced by nanometallic antennae, but this has not ...

Particle detectors 1 28 . PARTICLE DETECTORS

Revised 2003 (see the various sections for authors). In this section we give various parameters for common detector components. The quoted numbers are usually based on typical devices, and should be regarded only as rough approximations for new designs. More detailed discussions of detectors and their underlying physics can be found in books by Ferbel [1], Grupen [2], Kleinknecht [3], Knoll [4]...

Superconducting Magnets for Detectors

A Fermilab/KEK/University of Tskuba, Japan collaboration is designing a large superconducting solenoid for the Fermilab Collider Detector Facility (CDF). A review of the status of other superconducting solenoids built for colliding beams machines is presented and progress on the design of the CDF magnet is discussed. Two types of superconducting coils appear to be feasible; a bath-cooled cryost...

Superconducting Microresonator Detectors

Figure 1: Left: Principle of operation of superconducting microresonator detectors, following[1]. The absorbed photon energy breaks Cooper electron pairs in a thin superconducting film (a) which is part of a lithographed microresonator circuit (b). The breaking of Cooper pairs causes a change in the surface reactance and resistance of the film, leading to a shift in the resonance frequency fr a...