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View article: Sub-keV Electron Recoil Calibration for Macroscopic Cryogenic Calorimeters Using a Novel X-ray Fluorescence Source
Sub-keV Electron Recoil Calibration for Macroscopic Cryogenic Calorimeters Using a Novel X-ray Fluorescence Source Open
Percent-level calibration of cryogenic macro-calorimeters with energy thresholds below 100 eV is crucial for light Dark Matter (DM) searches and reactor neutrino studies based on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS). This p…
View article: New Limits on Distributed Quantum Advantage: Dequantizing Linear Programs
New Limits on Distributed Quantum Advantage: Dequantizing Linear Programs Open
In this work, we give two results that put new limits on distributed quantum advantage in the context of the LOCAL model of distributed computing. First, we show that there is no distributed quantum advantage for any linear program. Put ot…
View article: Germanium target sensed by phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors
Germanium target sensed by phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors Open
Cryogenic phonon detectors are adopted in experiments searching for dark matter interactions or coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, thanks to the low energy threshold they can achieve. The phonon-mediated sensing of particle inte…
View article: MISTRAL: Science Perspectives and Performance Forecasts
MISTRAL: Science Perspectives and Performance Forecasts Open
The MIllimeter Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements (MISTRAL) KIDs is a millimeter camera operating at 90GHz that was recently installed on the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) as part of the SRT-HighFreq progr…
View article: The Cryogenic System of the MISTRAL Instrument: Design and In-lab Performance
The Cryogenic System of the MISTRAL Instrument: Design and In-lab Performance Open
We describe the design and performance of the cryostat and the multi-stage sub-K single-shot sorption cooler for the MIllimeter Sardinia Radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements kids (MISTRAL) experiment. MISTRAL is a W-b…
View article: Cryogenic Facility for Prototyping ET-LF Payloads Using Conductive Cooling
Cryogenic Facility for Prototyping ET-LF Payloads Using Conductive Cooling Open
Cooling down large test masses up to 200 kg, as foreseen for the Einstein Telescope, is a complex challenge combining cutting-edge technological achievements from different disciplines with the experience gained from both room-temperature …
View article: Evaluating Radiation Impact on Transmon Qubits Using a Fast Decay Protocol in Above and Underground Laboratories
Evaluating Radiation Impact on Transmon Qubits Using a Fast Decay Protocol in Above and Underground Laboratories Open
Superconducting qubits can be sensitive to sudden energy deposits caused by ambient radioactivity and cosmic rays. Previous studies have focused on understanding possible correlated effects over time and distance due to this radiation. In …
View article: Radiological evaluation of fusion patterns after Lateral Lumbar Interbody fusion with 3D-printed porous titanium cages vs. conventional titanium cages
Radiological evaluation of fusion patterns after Lateral Lumbar Interbody fusion with 3D-printed porous titanium cages vs. conventional titanium cages Open
Introduction The assessment of segmental fusion after Lateral Lumbar Interbody fusion (LLIF) using 3D-printed porous titanium cage is still not well studied. Various criteria, such as the presence of bone bridges (BB) between adjacent vert…
View article: Evaluating Radiation Impact on Superconducting Transmon Qubits in Above and Underground Facilities
Evaluating Radiation Impact on Superconducting Transmon Qubits in Above and Underground Facilities Open
Superconducting qubits can be sensitive to sudden energy deposits into the substrate from cosmic rays and ambient radioactivity. While previous studies have primarily focused on exploring correlated effects over time and distance due to co…
View article: Evaluating Radiation Impact on Transmon Qubits in Above and Underground Facilities
Evaluating Radiation Impact on Transmon Qubits in Above and Underground Facilities Open
Superconducting qubits can be sensitive to abrupt energy deposits caused by cosmic rays and ambient radioactivity. Previous studies have focused on understanding possible correlated effects over time and distance due to cosmic rays. In thi…
View article: Data analysis of the NUCLEUS experiment with the Diana framework
Data analysis of the NUCLEUS experiment with the Diana framework Open
The analysis of cryogenic detector data is known to be challenging for any experiment. The main difficulty resides in the background rejection since they suffer from the presence of several different pulse shapes which need to be discrimin…
View article: Observing galaxy clusters and the cosmic web through the Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect with MISTRAL
Observing galaxy clusters and the cosmic web through the Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect with MISTRAL Open
Galaxy clusters and surrounding medium, can be studied using X-ray bremsstrahlung emission and Sunyaev Zel’dovich (SZ) effect. Both astrophysical probes, sample the same environment with different parameters dependance. The SZ effect is re…
View article: Dark performance of the MISTRAL LEKIDs
Dark performance of the MISTRAL LEKIDs Open
MISTRAL, Millimetric Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements KIDs, is a W-Band cryogenic LEKID camera installed on the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), in Italy. The MISTRAL detector array has been designed to wo…
View article: The underground Round Robin
The underground Round Robin Open
establishing guidelines and procedures to accurately perform the measurements. The optics used in the measurements were selected to reflect typical, as well as state of the art, in mirror fabrication. The first series of the round robin me…
View article: Observing galaxy clusters and the cosmic web through the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect with MISTRAL
Observing galaxy clusters and the cosmic web through the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect with MISTRAL Open
Galaxy clusters and surrounding medium, can be studied using X-ray bremsstrahlung emission and Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. Both astrophysical probes, sample the same environment with different parameters dependance. The SZ effect is re…
View article: Mitigation of Cosmic Rays-Induced Errors in Superconducting Quantum Processors
Mitigation of Cosmic Rays-Induced Errors in Superconducting Quantum Processors Open
Environmental radioactivity and cosmic-rays have recently been identified as a source of decoherence in super-conducting quantum bits (qubits). In particular, the absorption of cosmic-ray muons and gamma rays emitted by naturally occurring…
View article: ARC-ETCRYO and CAOS, two experimental facilities dedicated to Einstein Telescope cryogenics and suspensions
ARC-ETCRYO and CAOS, two experimental facilities dedicated to Einstein Telescope cryogenics and suspensions Open
The ETIC consortium will provide the R&D framework to investigate and validate possible configuration\nand solutions to be adopted for third generation gravitational-wave detector Einstein Telescope. The\ntwo facilities are dedicated to th…
View article: Twelve-crystal prototype of Li<sub>2</sub>MoO<sub>4</sub> scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments
Twelve-crystal prototype of Li<sub>2</sub>MoO<sub>4</sub> scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments Open
An array of twelve 0.28 kg lithium molybdate (LMO) low-temperature bolometers equipped with 16 bolometric Ge light detectors, aiming at optimization of detector structure for CROSS and CUPID double-beta decay experiments, was constructed a…
View article: A first test of CUPID prototypal light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a pulse-tube cryostat
A first test of CUPID prototypal light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a pulse-tube cryostat Open
CUPID is a next-generation bolometric experiment aiming at searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with ∼250 kg of isotopic mass of 100 Mo. It will operate at ∼10 mK in a cryostat currently hosting a similar-scale bolometric array for…
View article: Observation of a Nuclear Recoil Peak at the 100 eV Scale Induced by Neutron Capture
Observation of a Nuclear Recoil Peak at the 100 eV Scale Induced by Neutron Capture Open
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and low-mass dark matter detectors rely crucially on the understanding of their response to nuclear recoils. We report the first observation of a nuclear recoil peak at around 112 eV induced by …
View article: Twelve-crystal prototype of Li$_2$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments
Twelve-crystal prototype of Li$_2$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments Open
An array of twelve 0.28 kg lithium molybdate (LMO) low-temperature bolometers equipped with 16 bolometric Ge light detectors, aiming at optimization of detector structure for CROSS and CUPID double-beta decay experiments, was constructed a…
View article: Search for Majoron-like particles with CUPID-0
Search for Majoron-like particles with CUPID-0 Open
We present the first search for the Majoron-emitting modes of the neutrinoless double beta
\n decay using scintillating cryogenic calorimeters. We analyzed the CUPID-0 Phase I data using a Bayesian approach to reconstruct the background so…
View article: High angular resolution Sunyaev Zel’dovich observations: The case of MISTRAL
High angular resolution Sunyaev Zel’dovich observations: The case of MISTRAL Open
The MIllimeter Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements kids, MISTRAL, is a millimetric ($\simeq 90GHz$) multipixel camera being built for the Sardinia Radio Telescope. It is going to be a facility instrument and…
View article: Latest results from CUPID-0
Latest results from CUPID-0 Open
CUPID-0 is a pilot experiment in scintillating cryogenic calorimetry for the search of neutrino-less double beta decay. 26 ZnSe crystals were operated continuously in the first project phase (March 2017 - December 2018), demonstrating unpr…