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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 100, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4726279
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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We demonstrate position and energy-resolved phonon-mediated detection of particle interactions in a silicon substrate instrumented with an array of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). The relative magnitude and delay of the signal received in each sensor allow the location of the interaction to be determined with <= 1 mm resolution at 30 keV. Using this position information, variations in the detector response with position can be removed, and an energy resolution of sigma(E) - 0.55 keV at 30 keV was measured. Since MKIDs can be fabricated from a single deposited film and are naturally multiplexed in the frequency domain, this technology can be extended to provide highly pixelized athermal phonon sensors for similar to 1 kg scale detector elements. Such high-resolution, massive particle detectors would be applicable to rare-event searches such as the direct detection of dark matter, neutrinoless double-beta decay, or coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4726279]
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