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Superconducting nanowires as high-rate photon detectors in strong magnetic fields
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, v 959, p163543
11 Apr 2020
Abstract
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are capable of single-photon detection across a large spectral range with near unity detection efficiency, picosecond timing jitter, and sub-10 mu m position resolution, at rates as high as 10(9) counts/s. In an effort to bring this technology into nuclear physics experiments, we fabricate niobium nitride (NbN) nanowire detectors using ion beam assisted sputtering and test their performance in strong magnetic fields. We demonstrate that these devices are capable of detection of 400 nm wavelength photons with saturated internal quantum efficiency at temperatures of 3 K and in magnetic fields of up to 5 T at high count rates and with nearly zero dark counts.
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- Title
- Superconducting nanowires as high-rate photon detectors in strong magnetic fields
- Creators
- T. Polakovic - Drexel UniversityW. R. Armstrong - Argonne National LaboratoryYefremenko - Argonne Natl Lab, High Energy Phys Div, 9700 S Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439 USAJ. E. Pearson - Argonne National LaboratoryK. Hafidi - Argonne National LaboratoryG. Karapetrov - Drexel UniversityZ-E Meziani - Argonne National LaboratoryNovosad - Argonne Natl Lab, Div Mat Sci, 9700 S Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439 USAArgonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Publication Details
- Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, v 959, p163543
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 5
- Grant note
- DEAC02-06CH11357 / U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics and Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division; United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-06CH11357 / U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences; United States Department of Energy (DOE)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000518368800040
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85078972668
- Other Identifier
- 991019168132004721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Instruments & Instrumentation
- Nuclear Science & Technology
- Physics, Nuclear
- Physics, Particles & Fields