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{ ABSTRACT BOOK { 17th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan June 28, 2017 Preface The International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD) is the biennial meeting to present and discuss latest results on research and development of cryogenic detectors for radiation and particles, and on applications of those detectors. The 17-th workshop will be held at Kurume City Plaza in Kurume city, Fukuoka Japan from 17th of July through 21st. The workshop will be organized with the following six sessions: 1. Keynote talks 2. Sensor Physics & Developments, • TES, MMC, MKIDS, STJ, Semiconductors, Novel detectors, others 3. Readout Techniques & Signal processing • Electronics, Multiplexing, Filtering, Imaging, Microwave circuit, Data analysis, others 4. Fabrication & Implementation Techniques • Fabrication process, MEMS, Pixel array, Microwave wirings, others 5. Cryogenics and Components • Refrigerators, Window techniques, Optical Blocking Filters, others 6. Applications • Electromagnetic wave & photon (mm-wave, THZ, IR, Visible, X-ray, Gamma-ray), Particles, Neutrons, CMB, Dark Matter, Neutrinos, Particle & Nuclear Physics, Rare Event Search, Material Analysis & Life Science Kurume is a fabulous location for the workshop. It is known by good local foods and good Sake (Japanese rice wine), and also for traditional fabric called Kurume Gasuri. The LTD17 workshop provides you a wonderful opportunity to exchange your ideas and extend your experience on the low temperature detectors. We hope you will join and enjoy. LOC of 17th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors ii Contents Oral presentations 1 Keynote talks 2 O-1 Low Temperature Detectors (for Dark matter and Neutrinos) 30 Years ago. The Start of a new experimental Technology. (Franz von Feilitzsch) .............................. 3 O-2 X-Ray Microcalorimeters in Space - Today and Tomorrow (Richard L Kelley) .............. 4 O-3 CMB B-mode polarization - Probe the era before the Big Bang (Hitoshi Murayama) .......... 5 MKIDS 1 6 O-4 Performance of a 961 pixel Kinetic Inductance Detector system for future space borne observatories (Jochem Baselmans, Juan Bueno, Stephen Yates, Ozan Yurduseven, Nuria Llombart, Kenichi Karatsu, Andrey Baryshev, Lorenza Ferrari, Akira Endo, David Thoen, Pieter de Visser, Reinier Janssen, Vi- gnesh Murugesan, Eduard Driessen, Gregoire Coiffard, Jesus Martin-Pintado, Peter Hargrave, Matt Griffin) ..................................................... 7 O-5 The sub-gap KID (SKID): on-chip spectroscopy at centimetric wavelengths (Alessandro Monfardini, Olivier Dupre, Alain Benoit, Martino Calvo, Andrea Catalano, Johannes Goupy, Christophe Hoarau, Thierry Klein, Kevin Le Calvez, Benjamin Sacepe, Florence Levy-Bertrand, Alicia Gomez) ...... 9 O-6 Moving optical MKIDs to lower temperature: preliminary characterization of Hafnium resonators (Giulia Collura, Gregoire Coiffard, Bruce Bumble, Paul Szypryt, Benjamin A. Mazin) .............. 10 O-7 Suppression of in-detector-chip stray radiation for large arrays of lens-antenna coupled microwave ki- netic inductance detectors (Stephen J.C. Yates, Andrey M. Baryshev, Ozan Yurduseven, Juan Bueno, Kristina K. Davis, Lorenza Ferrari, Willem Jellema, Nuria Llombart, Vignesh Murugesan, David Thoen, Jochem J.A. Baselmans) ....................................... 11 MKIDS 2 12 O-8 Counting Near Infrared Photons with Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (Lianfu Wei) ..... 13 O-9 Characterizing millimeter wave Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detectors with a novel readout system (Roger O'Brient, Bryan Steinbach, Hien Nguyen, Anthony Turner, Jonas Zmuidzinas, James Bock) . 14 O-10 Photon Counting Kinetic Inductance Detectors for THz/Submillimeter Space Spectroscopy (Omid Noroozian, Emily M Barrentine, Thomas R Stevenson, Ari D Brown, Vilem Mikula, Edward J Wollack, Kongpop U-Yen, Samuel H Moseley) ..................................... 15 O-11 Low-Loss, Low-Noise, Crystalline Silicon Dielectric for Superconducting Microstriplines and Kinetic Inductance Detector Capacitors (Fabien Defrance, Andrew D. Beyer, Jack Sayers, Sunil Golwala) .. 16 O-12 Kalliope-based High-Speed Neutron imager by a delay-line current biased kinetic inductance detector (Hiroaki Shishido, Yuya Miki, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Yuki Iizawa, Kenji M Kojima, Kenichi Oikawa, Masahide Harada, Takayuki Oku, Kazuhiko Soyama, Shigeyuki Miyajima, Mutsuo Hidaka, Takekazu Ishida) ...................................................... 17 Application - Astronomy 18 O-13 First light of DARKNESS: a pathfinder for exoplanet imaging with Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (Seth R. Meeker, Benjamin A. Mazin, Alex B. Walter, Matthew J. Strader, Neelay Fruitwala, Clint Bockstiegel, Paul Szypryt, Gerhard Ulbricht, Gregoire Coiffard, Bruce Bumble, Giulia Collura, Rupert Dodkins, Isabel Lipartito, Michael Bottom, J. Chris Shelton, Dimitri Mawet, Gautam Vasisht, Eugene Serabyn) ................................................ 19 iii O-14 Development of 'DESHIMA on ASTE': towards a field test of a submillimeter wave superconducting on- chip filterbank spectrometer based on kinetic inductance detectors (Akira Endo, David Thoen, Kenichi Karatsu, Nuri van Marrewijk, Sjoerd Bosma, Ozan Yurduseven, Nuria Llombart, Masato Naruse, No- zomu Tomita, Junya Suzuki, Akio Taniguchi, Kotaro Kohno, Shun Ishii, Jun Maekawa, Ryohei Kawabe, Tai Oshima, Kaui Chin, Yoichi Tamura, Tatsuya Takekoshi, Kazuyuki Fujita, Akira Kouchi, Shunichi Nakatsubo, Teun Klapwijk, Paul van der Werf, Stephen Yates, Andrey Baryshev, Vignesh Murugesan, Robert Huiting, Jochem Baselmans) ..................................... 20 O-15 The NIKA2 instrument at 30-m IRAM telescope: performance and results (Andrea Catalano, NIKA Core Team) ................................................... 23 O-16 Sensitivity, Dynamic Range, and Multiplexing Requirements of FIR Detectors for the Origins Space Telescope (OST) (Johannes G Staguhn) ................................... 24 O-17 The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) (Francois Pajot, Thien Lam Trong, Jan-Willem den Herder, Luigi Piro, Massimo Cappi) ..................................... 25 O-18 Design and status of TIME, a mm-wavelength spectrometer array for [CII] intensity mapping (Jonathon Hunacek, James Bock, C. Matt Bradford, Tzu-Ching Chang, Yun-Ting Cheng, Asantha Cooray, Abigail Crites, Steve Hailey-Dunsheath, Daewook Kim, Chao-Te Li, Daniel Marrone, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Erik Shirokoff, Guochao Sun, Isaac Trumper, Anthony Turner, Bade Uzgil, Michael Zemcov) ........ 26 MKIDS 3 27 O-19 Modelling the Performance of Single-Photon Counting Kinetic Inductance Detectors (Josie Dzifa Akua Parrianen, Simon Doyle, Enzo Pascale) ................................... 28 O-20 Ultrasensitive kilo-pixel imaging array of photon noise limited Kinetic Inductance Detectors over an octave of bandwidth for THz astronomy (Juan Bueno, Ozan Yurduseven, Stephen J. C. Yates, Nuria Llombart, Vignesh Murugesan, Kenichi Karatsu, David J. Thoen, Andrey M. Baryshev, Andrea Neto, Jochem J. A. Baselmans) ........................................... 29 O-21 Development of Multi-Chroic MKIDs for Next-Generation CMB Polarization Studies (Bradley R. Johnson, Daniel Flanigan, Maximilian H. Abitbol, Peter A. R. Ade, Sean Bryan, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Rahul Datta, Peter Day, Simon Doyle, Kent Irwin, Glenn Jones, Sarah Kernasovskiy, Dale Li, Phil Mauskopf, Heather McCarrick, Jeff McMahon, Amber Miller, Yanru Song, Carole Tucker) ...... 30 O-22 Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for TolTEC and Beyond (Jason Edward Austermann, Jiansong Gao, Johannes Hubmayr, Michael Vissers, James Beall, Bradley Dober, Shannon Duff, Weijie Guo, Gene Hilton, Christopher McKenney, Joel Ullom, Jeff Van Lanen) .... 31 TES 1 32 O-23 Quantitatively characterizing sources of energy resolution degradation in TES microcalorimeters AC- biased at MHz frequencies. (Christine Goodwin Pappas, Dan Becker, Douglas Bennett, Johnathon Gard, John Mates, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom) ........................ 33 O-24 Josephson effects in frequency domain multiplexed TES microcalorimeters and bolometers (Luciano Gottardi, Stephen J. Smith, Hiroki Akamatsu, Jan van der Kuur, Simon R. Bandler, Marcel P. Bruijn, James A. Chervenak, Jan R. Gao, Roland den Hartog, Brian D. Jackson, Pourya Khosropanah, Antoine R. Miniussi, Kenichiro Nagayoshi, Marcel Ridder, Jack Sadleir, Kazuhiro Sakai, Nick Wakeham) ... 34 O-25 Development of TES microcalorimeters for 10-50 keV using a gold absorber (Haruka Muramatsu, Tasuku Hayashi, Keisei Maehisa, Yuki Nakashima, Takehiro Kuroiwa, Takahiro Nakayama, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Noriko Y Yamasaki) ......................................... 35 TES 2/Bolometer 36 O-26 Noise equivalent power and energy resolution of transition-edge sensors with complex thermal models (Ilari Maasilta) ................................................. 37 O-27 Exploring the effects of size and geometry of normal metal features on the transition shapes and performance of transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters (Nicholas Wakeham, Joseph S Adams, Simon R Bandler, James A Chervenak, Aaron M Datesman, Megan E Eckart, Fred M Finkbeiner, Richard L Kelly, Caroline A Kilbourne, Antoine R Miniussi, Frederick S Porter, John E Sadleir, Kazuhiro Sakai, Stephen J Smith, Edward J Wassell, Wonsik Yoon) ............................. 38 O-28 Dependence of transition width on current and critical current in transition-edge sensors (Kelsey M Morgan, Christine G Pappas, Douglas A Bennett, Johnathon D Gard, James P Hays-Wehle,
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