From milliKelvin to MegaKelvin: The connection between superconductivity and cosmology
Tarek Saab
University of Florida
Improvements in observational accuracy are often driven by advances
in detector technology. Over the past few years detectors based on
superconducting transition-edge sensor technology, mediated by either
thermal or athermal phonons, have reached maturity and are finding
applications in various areas of astrophysics ranging from Dark Matter
detection to X-ray spectroscopy. This talk will describe the operational
principles of such detectors and present the latest results and future
goals of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment as well as
describe the Micro-X High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging Rocket
to be launched in 2011.
Date: | Mardi, le 10 mars 2009 |
Heure: | 15:00 |
Lieu: | Université McGill |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 305 |
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