Sensitivity to Cosmic Rays of Cold Electron Bolometers for Space Applications
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014

An important phenomenon limiting the sensitivity of bolometric detectors for future space missions is the interaction with cosmic rays. We tested the sensitivity of Cold Electron Bolometers (CEBs) to ionizing radiation using gamma-rays from a radioactive source and X-rays from an X-ray tube. We describe the test setup and the results. As expected, due to the effective thermal insulation of the sensing element and its negligible volume, we find that CEBs are largely immune to this problem.

arXiv:astro-ph/1306.2259

Bolometers

Cold electrons

Condensed Matter

Physics

2013

Space instrumentation

Physics

Applied

Cosmic rays

ISM collaboration white paper

Författare

Maria Salatino

Sapienza, Università di Roma

P. de Bernardis

Sapienza, Università di Roma

Sumedh Mahashabde

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Leonid Kuzmin

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

S. Masi

Sapienza, Università di Roma

Journal of Low Temperature Physics

0022-2291 (ISSN) 1573-7357 (eISSN)

Vol. 176 3-4 323-330

Ämneskategorier

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

Infrastruktur

Nanotekniklaboratoriet

DOI

10.1007/s10909-013-1057-5

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