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A Numerical Simulation Of The Pulse Sequence Reconstruction in AC Biased TESs With a β Source
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A Study of the Excess Noise of Ir Transition Edge Sensors in the Frame of Statistical Models
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Alternative Readout Electronics for Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors
A simple idea of using transformers as impedance adapters between TES and conventional JFET amplifiers, allowing to built an electronic readout system that does not degenerate the signal, will be presented. The theoretical modelling and systematic experimental results of such devices, indicate that there is a frequency range were the amplifier noise is negligible with respect to the TES noise
SAGACE:The spectroscopic active galaxies and clusters explorer
The SAGACE experiment consists of a mm/sub-mm telescope with a 3-m diameter primary mirror, coupled to a cryogenic multi-beam differential spectrometer. SAGACE explores the sky in the 100-760 GHz frequency range, using four diffraction-limited bolometer arrays. The instrument is designed to perform spectroscopic surveys of the Sunyaev- Zeldovich effects of thousands of galaxy clusters, of the spectral energy distribution of active galactic nuclei, and of the [CII] line of a thousand galaxies in the redshift desert. In 2008 a full phase-A study for a national small mission was completed and delivered to the Italian Space Agency (ASI). We have shown that taking advantage of the differential operation of the Fourier Transform Spectrometer, this ambitious instrument can operate from a Molniya orbit, and can be built and operated within the tight budget of a small mission.</p
Measuring the gravitational free-fall of antihydrogen
Antihydrogen holds the promise to test, for the first time, the universality of free-fall with a system composed entirely of antiparticles. The AEgIS experiment at CERN’s antiproton decelerator aims to measure the gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter by measuring the deflection of a beam of antihydrogen in the Earths gravitational field (g¯¯¯). The principle of the experiment is as follows: cold antihydrogen atoms are synthesized in a Penning-Malberg trap and are Stark accelerated towards a moiré deflectometer, the classical counterpart of an atom interferometer, and annihilate on a position sensitive detector. Crucial to the success of the experiment is the spatial precision of the position sensitive detector. We propose a novel free-fall detector based on a hybrid of two technologies: emulsion detectors, which have an intrinsic spatial resolution of 50 nm but no temporal information, and a silicon strip / scintillating fiber tracker to provide timing and positional information. In 2012 we tested emulsion films in vacuum with antiprotons from CERN’s antiproton decelerator. The annihilation vertices could be observed directly on the emulsion surface using the microscope facility available at the University of Bern. The annihilation vertices were successfully reconstructed with a resolution of 1–2 μmon the impact parameter. If such a precision can be realized in the final detector, Monte Carlo simulations suggest of order 500 antihydrogen annihilations will be sufficient to determine g¯¯¯with a 1 % accuracy. This paper presents current research towards the development of this technology for use in the AEgIS apparatus and prospects for the realization of the final detector.ISSN:0304-3843ISSN:0304-3834ISSN:1572-954
The AEgIS Experiment
The AEgIS experiment aims at performing the first test of the Weak Equivalence Principle of General Relativity in the antimatter sector by measuring the gravitational acceleration acting on a beam of cold antihydrogen to a precision of 1%. The installation of the apparatus is making good progress and large parts were taken into operation. Parasitic detector tests during the beamtime in December 2012 gave essential input for an optimal moiré deflectometer and the detector layout necessary to perform the gravity measurement.ISSN:0304-3843ISSN:0304-3834ISSN:1572-954
AEgIS experiment: Towards antihydrogen beam production for antimatter gravity measurements
AEgIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) is an experiment
that aims to perform the first direct measurement of the gravitational acceleration g of
antihydrogen in the Earth’s field. A cold antihydrogen beam will be produced by charge
exchange reaction between cold antiprotons and positronium excited in Rydberg states.
Rydberg positronium (with quantum number n between 20 and 30) will be produced by a two
steps laser excitation. The antihydrogen beam, after being accelerated by Stark effect,
will fly through the gratings of a moiré deflectometer. The deflection of the horizontal
beam due to its free fall will be measured by a position sensitive detector. It is
estimated that the detection of about 103 antihydrogen atoms is required to determine the
gravitational acceleration with a precision of 1%. In this report an overview of the AEgIS
experiment is presented and its current status is described. Details on the production of
slow positronium and its excitation with lasers are discussed