Testing and characterization of superCDMS dark matter detectors
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) relies on collection of phonons and charge carriers in semiconductors held at tens of milliKelvin as handles for detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). This thesis begins with a brief overview of the direct dark matter search (Chapter 1) and SuperCDMS detectors (Chapter 2). In Chapter 3, a 3He evaporative refrigerator facility is described. Results from experiments performed in-house at Stanford to measure carrier transport in high-purity germanium (HPGe) crystals operated at sub-Kelvin temperatures are presented in Chapter 4. Finally, in Chapter 5 a new numerical model and a time-domain optimal filtering technique are presented, both developed for use with superconducting Transition Edge Sensors (TESs), that provide excellent event reconstruction for single particle interactions in detectors read out with superconducting W-TESs coupled to energy-collecting films of Al.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Shank, Benjamin |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Cabrera, Blas |
| Thesis advisor | Cabrera, Blas |
| Thesis advisor | Graham, Peter (Peter Wickelgren) |
| Thesis advisor | Osheroff, Douglas D |
| Advisor | Graham, Peter (Peter Wickelgren) |
| Advisor | Osheroff, Douglas D |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Benjamin Shank. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Benjamin David Shank
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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