QUBIC IV: Performance of TES bolometers and readout electronics
- Creators
- Piat, M.
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Stankowiak, G.
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Battistelli, E. S.
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de Bernardis, P.
- D'Alessandro, G.
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De Petris, M.
- Grandsire, L.
- Hamilton, J.-Ch.
- Hoang, T. D.
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Marnieros, S.
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Masi, S.
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Mennella, A.
- Mousset, L.
- O'Sullivan, C.
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Prêle, D.
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Tartari, A.
- Thermeau, J.-P.
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Torchinsky, S. A.
- Voisin, F.
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Zannoni, M.
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Ade, P.
- Alberro, J. G.
- Almela, A.
- Amico, G.
- Arnaldi, L. H.
- Auguste, D.
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Aumont, J.
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Azzoni, S.
- Banfi, S.
- Baù, A.
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Bélier, B.
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Bennett, D.
- Bergé, L.
- Bernard, J.-Ph.
- Bersanelli, M.
- Bigot-Sazy, M.-A.
- Bonaparte, J.
- Bonis, J.
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Bunn, E.
- Burke, D.
- Buzi, D.
- Cavaliere, F.
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Chanial, P.
- Chapron, C.
- Charlassier, R.
- Cobos Cerutti, A. C.
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Columbro, F.
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Coppolecchia, A.
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De Gasperis, G.
- De Leo, M.
- Dheilly, S.
- Duca, C.
- Dumoulin, L.
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Etchegoyen, A.
- Fasciszewski, A.
- Ferreyro, L. P.
- Fracchia, D.
- Franceschet, C.
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Gamboa Lerena, M. M.
- Ganga, K. M.
- García, B.
- García Redondo, M. E.
- Gaspard, M.
- Gayer, D.
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Gervasi, M.
- Giard, M.
- Gilles, V.
- Giraud-Heraud, Y.
- Gómez Berisso, M.
- González, M.
- Gradziel, M.
- Hampel, M. R.
- Harari, D.
- Henrot-Versillé, S.
- Incardona, F.
- Jules, E.
- Kaplan, J.
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Kristukat, C.
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Lamagna, L.
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Loucatos, S.
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Louis, T.
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Maffei, B.
- Marty, W.
- Mattei, A.
- May, A.
- McCulloch, M.
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Mele, L.
- Melo, D.
- Montier, L.
- Mundo, L. M.
- Murphy, J. A.
- Murphy, J. D.
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Nati, F.
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Olivieri, E.
- Oriol, C.
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Paiella, A.
- Pajot, F.
- Passerini, A.
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Pastoriza, H.
- Pelosi, A.
- Perbost, C.
- Perciballi, M.
- Pezzotta, F.
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Piacentini, F.
- Piccirillo, L.
- Pisano, G.
- Platino, M.
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Polenta, G.
- Puddu, R.
- Rambaud, D.
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Rasztocky, E.
- Ringegni, P.
- Romero, G. E.
- Salum, J. M.
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Schillaci, A.
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Scóccola, C. G.
- Scully, S.
- Spinelli, S.
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Stolpovskiy, M.
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Supanitsky, A. D.
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Timbie, P.
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Tomasi, M.
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Tucker, C.
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Tucker, G.
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Viganò, D.
- Vittorio, N.
- Wicek, F.
- Wright, M.
- Zullo, A.
- QUBIC Collaboration
Abstract
A prototype version of the Q & U bolometric interferometer for cosmology (QUBIC) underwent a campaign of testing in the laboratory at Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology laboratory in Paris (APC). The detection chain is currently made of 256 NbSi transition edge sensors (TES) cooled to 320 mK. The readout system is a 128:1 time domain multiplexing scheme based on 128 SQUIDs cooled at 1 K that are controlled and amplified by a SiGe application specific integrated circuit at 40 K. We report the performance of this readout chain and the characterization of the TES. The readout system has been functionally tested and characterized in the lab and in QUBIC. The low noise amplifier demonstrated a white noise level of 0.3 nV/√Hz. Characterizations of the QUBIC detectors and readout electronics includes the measurement of I-V curves, time constant and the noise equivalent power. The QUBIC TES bolometer array has approximately 80% detectors within operational parameters. It demonstrated a thermal decoupling compatible with a phonon noise of about 5 × 10⁻¹⁷ W/√Hz at 410 mK critical temperature. While still limited by microphonics from the pulse tubes and noise aliasing from readout system, the instrument noise equivalent power is about 2 × 10⁻¹⁶ W/√Hz, enough for the demonstration of bolometric interferometry.
Additional Information
© 2022 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. Received 19 January 2021; Accepted 7 October 2021; Published 21 April 2022. QUBIC is funded by the following agencies. France: ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) 2012 and 2014, DIM-ACAV (Domaine d'Interet Majeur-Astronomie et Conditions d'Apparition de la Vie), CNRS/IN2P3 (Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules), CNRS/INSU (Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Institut national et al de sciences de l'univers). Italy: CNR/PNRA (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche/Programma Nazionale Ricerche in Antartide) until 2016, INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) since 2017. Argentina: MINCyT (Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación), CNEA (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica), CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas). D. Burke and J.D. Murphy acknowledge funding from the Irish Research Council under the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme. D. Gayer and S. Scully acknowledge funding from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. D. Bennett acknowledges funding from Science Foundation Ireland.Attached Files
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- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)
- Domaine d'Interet Majeur-Astronomie et Conditions d'Apparition de la Vie
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
- Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
- Programma Nazionale Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación
- Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
- Irish Research Council
- National University of Ireland
- Science Foundation, Ireland
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