CPAD Workshop 2023

Session

RDC8

7 Nov 2023, 13:30

51/1-102 - Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Conveners

RDC8: Session #1 (Quantum and Superconducting Sensors)

• Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/IIT)
• Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

RDC8: Session #2

• Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/IIT)

RDC8: Session #3

• Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/IIT)

RDC8

• Xiran Bai (Yale University)

RDC8: Session #4

• Michaela Guzzetti (University of Washington)

RDC8: Session #5

• James Wetzel (The University of Iowa)

Presentation materials

CPAD RDC8 Notes

243. RDC8 coordination effort summary

Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Prof. Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/IIT)

07/11/2023, 13:30

Oral

244. RDC8 pair-breaking detectors summary

Clarence Chang (Argonne National Lab & the University of Chicago), Matthew Shaw (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

07/11/2023, 13:50

Oral

245. RDC8 coherent wave detectors summary

Dr Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab), Silvia Zorzetti (Fermilab)

07/11/2023, 14:40

Oral

246. ECFA Detector R&D roadmap for Quantum Sensing summary

Michael Doser (CERN)

08/11/2023, 11:00

Oral

Detector R&D roadmap for Quantum Sensing (DRDq) summary

251. AMO, NMR, Interferometry, clock detectors RDC8 subgroup

Swati Singh (University of Delaware)

08/11/2023, 11:30

Oral

252. Novel Material/Theory and Modeling RDC8 subgroup

Sinead Griffin (Berkeley Lab)

08/11/2023, 12:00

169. Cryogenic Crystal Phonon Detectors for meV-keV Signals

James Ryan (SLAC)

08/11/2023, 13:30

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Experiments employing transition-edge sensors (TESs) coupled to crystals for athermal phonon detection are a major part of the worldwide effort to detect dark matter. Such detectors can provide the highest sensitivity to meV to keV-scale signals from a variety of dark matter candidates, including axion-like particles, dark sector dark matter, and WIMPs. We review the current status of the...

54. First Detection of 120 GeV Protons with SNSPDs

Sangbaek Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)

08/11/2023, 13:45

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

SNSPDs are well established as an ultra-fast and highly efficient single photon detector technology. Typical sensor properties, such as small pixel size, low power, and low material thickness, make these sensitive detectors ideal for tracking particle detector applications. Cases where only modest detector areas are needed are prime candidates for this new particle detection technology. One...

57. Development of Superconducting Qubit-Based Sensors for meV Scale Detectors

Caleb Fink (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08/11/2023, 14:00

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

The increasing maturity of superconducting qubits over the past few decades has allowed the field of superconducting quantum computing to flourish. In parallel, advances in detector technology which have built on this wave of qubit fabrication expertise have shown that this same technology can be applied to energy sensing at the THz (meV) scale, opening up a new regime of sensing leveraging...

200. Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors for millimeter wave cosmology

Roger O'Brient (NASA JPL)

08/11/2023, 14:15

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

We are currently developing thermal kinetic inductance detectors (TKIDs) for CMB observations and millimeter wave spectroscopy. TKIDs use the temperature dependance of a KID-like high Q resonator as a drop in replacement to TESes, granting bolometric arrays the ease of KID-like readout. We will report on the laboratory performance of an array of antenna coupled KIDs designed for CMB...

185. Quantum-Enhanced Telescopy for HEP Science

Paul Stankus (Brookhaven National Lab)

08/11/2023, 14:30

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Astronomical measurements, particularly using optical interferometers, can be improved -- in some cases greatly so -- through the new application of quantum devices such as quantum memories, single-photon sources, quantum repeaters, quantum teleportation, and more. We will review recent work in this field, a.k.a. "quantum telescopy" and show how quantum-linked optical arrays can directly...

142. First Results from the GigaBREAD Experiment

Gabriel Hoshino (University of Chicago), Dr Stefan Knirck (Fermilab)

08/11/2023, 14:45

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

We will discuss the first results from the GigaBREAD experiment. GigaBREAD is a 10.7-12.5 GHz search for dark photons which completed its first round of data taking during the summer of 2023. GigaBREAD is a pilot experiment which is the first to implement the novel BREAD reflector geometry. The BREAD reflector is designed to enhance a dark photon or axion-like particle signal by focusing...

195. KID-based phonon-mediated (KIPM) detectors

Osmond Wen (SLAC)

08/11/2023, 15:00

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

KID-based phonon-mediated (KIPM) detectors have two features that make them attractive for dark matter searches and CEvNS studies: 1) the massive multiplexability of KIDs enables the position resolution necessary for nuclear recoil discrimination; and 2) a variety of amplifier-based and KID-specific improvements chart an attainable path forward to sub-eV energy resolution. We report on the...

263. Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors for Dark Matter Detection and HEP

Matt Shaw (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

08/11/2023, 15:15

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the most advanced sensors available for time-resolved single photon counting from the ultraviolet to the infrared. We will discuss recent advances in SNSPD technology, including demonstration of dark count rates below 1e-5 cps, scaling to large-format arrays (up to 400 kpix), single-photon sensitivity at wavelengths as long as 29...

113. Towards Quantum Charge Parity Detectors with meV Resolution for Astroparticle Applications

Karthik Ramanathan (Caltech)

09/11/2023, 11:00

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Next generation rare-event searches, for example in looking for "sub-GeV" particle dark matter, require new tools and techniques with much improved sensitivity. In particular, the constrained kinematic space of potential interactions suggests that collective excitations like phonons may be the only signature of very low mass dark matter candidates. One promising technology to study these are...

262. Improving light coupling into instruments with integrated photonic and low temperature sensors

Miguel Daal (Tel Aviv University)

09/11/2023, 11:15

79. Versatility of superconducting Hafnium for transition edge sensor bolometers.

Kaja Rotermund (LBNL)

09/11/2023, 11:30

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Several current and next generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimetry experiments employ transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers whose operating temperature is ~100 milli-Kelvin, requiring a critical temperature (Tc) around 170 milli-Kelvin. Aluminum Manganese (AlMn) has been successfully used as the superconducting metal by several groups for CMB experiments. However, achieving a...

121. Low Tc Thin Film Superconducting Detectors

Clarence Chang (Argonne National Lab & the University of Chicago)

09/11/2023, 11:45

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

A number of applications, including neutrino studies and the search for dark matter, require detectors with lower thresholds and increased sensitivity. Superconducting detectors like Transition Edge Sensors (TES), Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKID), and Josephson Junctions are attractive candidate technologies where the use of low Tc materials could enable them to address theses...

260. Microwave kinetic inductance detector development for the SPT-3G+ camera on the South Pole Telescope

Karia Dibert (University of Chicago)

09/11/2023, 12:00

Oral

SPT-3G+ is the planned next-generation camera for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). Building on three generations of increasingly sensitive SPT cameras, SPT-3G+ will observe the mm/sub-mm sky at 220, 285, and 345 GHz, beyond the peak of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) blackbody spectrum. Consisting of 34,000 monochroic microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) across seven wafers,...

261. Millimeter-wave Superconducting Spectrometers for Next-Generation Cosmology

Kirit Karkare (SLAC)

09/11/2023, 12:15

Oral

The most compelling open questions in cosmology -- understanding the nature of inflation, dark energy, dark matter, and light relativistic species -- require cosmic surveys over extremely large volumes. The emerging technique of millimeter-wave line intensity mapping (LIM) has the potential to measure large-scale structure at distances far greater than the next generation of optical surveys....

170. Sapphire substrate qubit-based detector for light dark matter search

Kester Anyang (Illinois Institute of Technology)

09/11/2023, 13:30

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Harnessing sub-eV energy excitations from light dark matter interaction with a target material is one of the challenges in exploring promising novel materials for dark matter searches. In polar materials like sapphire, dark matter interaction can excite sub-eV optical phonon modes. Furthermore, the anisotropy of sapphire crystal could provide a signature of daily modulation of the dark matter...

173. Ultralight Axion Dark Matter Search using Optical Quantum Sensors

Young Jin Kim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09/11/2023, 13:45

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

An optical quantum sensor (OQS) based on lasers and alkali-metal atoms is currently the most sensitive ambient-temperature magnetometer. Because of high sensitivity and operation in a broad frequency range, the OQS can be used in axion dark matter search with an inductor-capacitor (LC) circuit at kHz and MHz frequencies. In this talk, we will present our recent activities on OQS-based axion...

199. R&D for Use of Superconducting Qubits as Dark Matter Detectors

Ryan Linehan (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09/11/2023, 14:00

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Developments over the last decade have pushed the search for particle dark matter (DM) to new frontiers, including the keV-scale lower mass limit for thermally-produced DM. Galactic DM at this mass is kinematically matched with the energy needed to break a Cooper pair in common superconductors (~meV). Quantum sensors such as superconducting qubits are sensitive to these broken Cooper pairs,...

171. Novel Light Field Imaging for the MAGIS-100 Experiment

Ariel Schwartzman (SLAC)

09/11/2023, 14:15

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Long-baseline atom interferometry presents an exciting opportunity for DOE to develop a new program of research in quantum atomic sensors for ultralight dark matter and mid-band gravitational waves. The development and science exploitation of long-baseline atomic experiments promises an ambitious long-term research program at the intersection of the energy, cosmic, and quantum information...

247. RDC8 work packages discussion

Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Prof. Rakshya Khatiwada (Fermilab/IIT)

09/11/2023, 14:30

22. Searching for axions and dark photons with superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) in the BREAD experiment

Christina Wang

10/11/2023, 08:30

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

The BREAD(Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection) experiment searches for axions and wave-like dark matter using a novel dish resonator which allows to utilize state-of-the-art high-field solenoidal magnets. The axion target mass extends from ~𝜇eV to eV, this large mass range makes it difficult to scale traditional resonator setups to the required volume. However, metallic surfaces...

30. In-situ System Noise Measurement for Axion Haloscopes with JPAs

Michaela Guzzetti (University of Washington)

10/11/2023, 08:45

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is one of the world’s leading direct detection experiments searching for an elusive dark matter particle candidate known as the axion. The axion’s origin lies in the realm of particle physics, initially coming into existence as a solution to the strong CP problem. Since its inception however, physicists have been interested in it not only for its ability...

138. Optical Strain Sensing for Particle Detection

Dylan Temples (Fermilab)

10/11/2023, 09:00

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Optomechanical strain sensing provides attractive opportunities for novel particle detection schemes, as well as studying stress-induced (i.e. non-radiogenic) phonon bursts, which have been demonstrated to limit the coherence times of superconducting qubits and are a suspected culprit in the low energy excesses observed by many dark matter direct detection experiments. We are investigating SiN...

115. Accelerating dark matter axion searches with quantum measurement and cavity innovation with HAYSTAC Experiment:

Xiran Bai (Yale University)

10/11/2023, 09:15

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

The HAYSTAC Collaboration is actively searching for axion cold dark matter using a resonant microwave cavity and quantum squeezed state receiver. With axion mass and coupling strength unknown, a crucial metric is the scanning rate across their parameter space. Recent advancements in squeezed state receivers have doubled the scanning rate. This talk will discuss HAYSTAC's current...

203. Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers

Kyle Woodworth (Fermilab)

10/11/2023, 09:30

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

Parametric amplifiers continue to be vital components in solid state quantum readout at cryogenic temperatures. Various flavors of parametric amplifiers are carving their place in a number of different readout architectures. Josephson junction (JJ) based amplifiers are the natural progression when these readout architectures are at deep cryogenic temperatures. Josephson traveling wave...

177. Quantum Capacitance Detectors for Ultralight Dark Matter searches.

Jialin Yu (Illinois institute of Technology)

10/11/2023, 09:45

RDC8: Quantum and Superconducting Sensors

Oral

QCDs, which are based on a charge qubit design, are the most sensitive far-infrared detectors in 1.5 THz regime. Apart from their current application in space telescopes for infrared spectroscopy, they have single-photon sensitivity that can be utilized to look for ultralight Dark Matter at the meV scale. This talk will give an overview of our work to characterize a QCD detector using a weak...