Results from a Prototype TES Detector for the Ricochet Experiment
Abstract
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) offers valuable sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. The Ricochet experiment will use cryogenic solid-state detectors to perform a precision measurement of the CENS spectrum induced by the high neutrino flux from the Institut Laue-Langevin nuclear reactor. The experiment will employ an array of detectors, each with a mass of 30 g and a targeted energy threshold of 50 eV. Nine of these detectors (the "Q-Array") will be based on a novel Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) readout style, in which the TES devices are thermally coupled to the absorber using a gold wire bond. We present initial characterization of a Q-Array-style detector using a 1 gram silicon absorber, obtaining a baseline root-mean-square resolution of less than 40 eV.
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@article{arxiv.2304.14926,
title = {Results from a Prototype TES Detector for the Ricochet Experiment},
author = {Ricochet Collaboration and C. Augier and G. Baulieu and V. Belov and L. Bergé and J. Billard and G. Bres and J-. L. Bret and A. Broniatowski and M. Calvo and A. Cazes and D. Chaize and M. Chala and C. L. Chang and M. Chapellier and L. Chaplinsky and G. Chemin and R. Chen and J. Colas and E. Cudmore and M. De Jesus and P. de Marcillac and L. Dumoulin and O. Exshaw and S. Ferriol and E. Figueroa-Feliciano and J. -B. Filippini and J. A. Formaggio and S. Fuard and K. Gannon and J. Gascon and A. Giuliani and J. Goupy and C. Goy and C. Guerin and E. Guy and P. Harrington and S. A. Hertel and M. Heusch and Z. Hong and J. -C. Ianigro and Y. Jin and A. Juillard and D. Karaivanov and S. Kazarcev and J. Lamblin and H. Lattaud and M. Li and M. Lisovenko and A. Lubashevskiy and S. Marnieros and N. Martini and D. W. Mayer and J. Minet and A. Monfardini and F. Mounier and V. Novati and E. Olivieri and C. Oriol and L. Ovalle Mateo and K. J. Palladino and P. K. Patel and E. Perbet and H. D. Pinckney and D. V. Poda and D. Ponomarev and F. Rarbi and J. -S. Real and T. Redon and F. C. Reyes and J. -S. Ricol and A. Robert and S. Rozov and I. Rozova and T. Salagnac and B. Schmidt and S. Scorza and Ye. Shevchik and T. Soldner and J. Stachurska and A. Stutz and L. Vagneron and W. Van De Pontseele and C. Veihmeyer and F. Vezzu and G. Wang and L. Winslow and E. Yakushev and V. G. Yefremenko and J. Zhang and D. Zinatulina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14926},
year = {2024}
}
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18 pages, 8 figures