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Development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction Far-Infrared Photon Detector for Cosmic Background Neutrino Decay Search - COBAND experiment

Conference · · PoS
DOI:https://doi.org/10.22323/1.340.0427· OSTI ID:1958440
We present the status of development of the Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) detector for the COsmic BAckground Neutrino Decay search (COBAND) experiment. The signal of the cosmic background neutrino decay is identified as a sharp cutoff at high energy end in a far-infrared region ranging from 15meV to 30meV in the energy spectrum of the photons from the space. The COBAND experiment will be done as rocket and satellite experiments in order to detect the far-infrared photons from the space. For the photon detector of the COBAND experiment, we are developing the STJ detectors. We will use a combination of the diffraction grating and the array of Nb/Al-STJ pixels with cryogenic amplifier for the rocket experiment, and use Hf-STJ without a grating for the future satellite experiment. The present status of the detector R&D and the experimental design for the COBAND experiment is reported.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1958440
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-18-836-PPD; oai:inspirehep.net:1749063
Conference Information:
Journal Name: PoS Journal Volume: ICHEP2018
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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