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Charge-to-heat transducers exploiting the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect for light detection in rare-event searches
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Novati, V. Berg'e, Laurent Dumoulin, Louis Giuliani, Andrea Ernesto Guido Mancuso, M. Marcillac, Pierre De Marnieros, Stefanos Olivieri, E. Poda, D. V. Tenconi, M. Zolotarova, Anastasiia |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Abstract In this work we present how to fabricate large-area (15 cm 2 ), ultra-low threshold germanium bolometric photo-detectors and how to operate them to detect few (optical) photons. These detectors work at temperatures as low as few tens of mK and exploit the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke (NTL) effect. They are operated as charge-to-heat transducers: the heat signal is linearly increased by simply changing a voltage bias applied to special metal electrodes, fabricated onto the germanium absorber, and read by a (NTD-Ge) thermal sensor. We fabricated a batch of five prototypes and ran them in different facilities with dilution refrigerators. We carefully studied how impinging spurious infrared radiation impacts the detector performances, by shining infrared photons via optical-fiber-guided LED signals, in a controlled manner, into the bolometers. We hence demonstrated how the radiation-tightness of the test environment tremendously enhances the detector performances, allowing to set electrode voltage bias up to 90 volts without any leakage current and signal-to-noise gain as large as a factor 12 (for visible photons). As consequence, for the first time we could operate large-area NTD-Ge-sensor-equipped NTL bolometric photo-detectors capable to reach sub 10-eV baseline noise (RMS). Such detectors open new frontiers for rare-event search experiments based on low light yield Ge-NTD equipped scintillating bolometers, such the CUPID neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment. |
| Starting Page | 320 |
| Ending Page | 327 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.044 |
| Volume Number | 940 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://export.arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11506 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11506v1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.044 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
