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1. Measurement and Modeling of Polarized Atmosphere at the South Pole with SPT-3G

Author: Coerver, A., Zebrowski, J. A., Takakura, S., Holzapfel, W. L., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Ahmed, Z., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Balkenhol, L., Barron, D., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chichura, P. M., Chokshi, A., Chou, T. -L., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fichman, K., Foster, A., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Ge, F., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Hood, J. C., Hryciuk, A., Huang, N., Keruzore, F., Khalife, A. R., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kornoelje, K., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Levy, K., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., Martsen, E. S., Menanteau, F., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Phadke, K. A., Pollak, A. W., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Schiappucci, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vieira, J. D., Vitrier, A., Wan, Y., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the detection and characterization of fluctuations in linearly polarized emission from the atmosphere above the South Pole. These measurements make use of Austral winter survey data from the SPT-3G receiver on the South Pole Telescope in three frequency bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. We use the cross-correlation between detectors to produce an unbiased estimate of the power in Stokes I, Q, and U parameters on large angular scales. Our results are consistent with the polarized signal being produced by the combination of Rayleigh scattering of thermal radiation from the ground and thermal emission from a population of horizontally aligned ice crystals with an anisotropic distribution described by Kolmogorov turbulence. The signal is most significant at large angular scales, high observing frequency, and low elevation angle. Polarized atmospheric emission has the potential to significantly impact observations on the large angular scales being targeted by searches for inflationary B-mode CMB polarization. We present the distribution of measured angular power spectrum amplitudes in Stokes Q and I for 4 years of winter observations, which can be used to simulate the impact of atmospheric polarization and intensity fluctuations at the South Pole on a specified experiment and observation strategy. For the SPT-3G data, downweighting the small fraction of significantly contaminated observations is an effective mitigation strategy. In addition, we present a strategy for further improving sensitivity on large angular scales where maps made in the 220 GHz band are used to measure and subtract the polarized atmosphere signal from the 150 GHz band maps. In observations with the SPT-3G instrument at the South Pole, the polarized atmospheric signal is a well-understood and sub-dominant contribution to the measured noise after implementing the mitigation strategies described here., Comment: 32 pages, 28 figures
Published: 2024

2. First demonstration of a TES based cryogenic Li$_2$MoO$_4$detector for neutrinoless double beta decay search

Author: Bratrud, G., Chang, C. L., Chen, R., Cudmore, E., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Hong, Z., Kennard, K. T., Lewis, S., Lisovenko, M., Mateo, L. O., Novati, V., Novosad, V., Oliveri, E., Ren, R., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Wang, G., Winslow, L., Yefremenko, V. G., Zhang, J., Baxter, D., Hollister, M., James, C., Lukens, P., and Temples, D. J.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Cryogenic calorimetric experiments to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) are highly competitive, scalable and versatile in isotope. The largest planned detector array, CUPID, is comprised of about 1500 individual Li$_2^{100}$MoO$_{4}$ detector modules with a further scale up envisioned for a follow up experiment (CUPID-1T). In this article, we present a novel detector concept targeting this second stage with a low impedance TES based readout for the Li$_2$MoO$_{4}$ absorber that is easily mass-produced and lends itself to a multiplexed readout. We present the detector design and results from a first prototype detector operated at the NEXUS shallow underground facility at Fermilab. The detector is a 2-cm-side cube with 21$\,$g mass that is strongly thermally coupled to its readout chip to allow rise-times of $\sim$0.5$\,$ms. This design is more than one order of magnitude faster than present NTD based detectors and is hence expected to effectively mitigate backgrounds generated through the pile-up of two independent two neutrino decay events coinciding close in time. Together with a baseline resolution of 1.95$\,$keV (FWHM) these performance parameters extrapolate to a background index from pile-up as low as $5\cdot 10^{-6}\,$counts/keV/kg/yr in CUPID size crystals. The detector was calibrated up to the MeV region showing sufficient dynamic range for $0\nu\beta\beta$ searches. In combination with a SuperCDMS HVeV detector this setup also allowed us to perform a precision measurement of the scintillation time constants of Li$_2$MoO$_{4}$. The crystal showed a significant fast scintillation emission with O(10$\,\mu$s) time-scale, more than an order below the detector response of presently considered light detectors suggesting the possibility of further progress in pile-up rejection through better light detectors in the future.
Published: 2024

3. Mass calibration of DES Year-3 clusters via SPT-3G CMB cluster lensing

Author: Ansarinejad, B., Raghunathan, S., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Anderson, A. J., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Archipley, M., Balkenhol, L., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bertin, E., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bocquet, S., Bouchet, F. R., Brooks, D., Bryant, L., Burke, D. L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Coerver, A., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., da Costa, L. N., Daley, C., Davis, T. M., de Haan, T., Desai, S., De Vicente, J., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Doussot, A., Doux, C., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Ferrero, I., Fichman, K., Foster, A., Frieman, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., García-Bellido, J., Gardner, R. W., Gaztanaga, E., Ge, F., Giannini, G., Goeckner-Wald, N., Grandis, S., Gruendl, R. A., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hood, J. C., Huang, N., James, D. J., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Lee, S., Levy, K., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., Marshall, J. L., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Millea, M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Palmese, A., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Rahimi, M., Reichardt, C. L., Reil, K., Romer, A. K., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Schiappucci, E., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suchyta, E., Suzuki, A., Swanson, M. E. C., Tandoi, C., Tarle, G., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Weaverdyck, N., Whitehorn, N., Wiseman., P., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Young, M. R., and Zebrowski, J. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the stacked lensing signal in the direction of galaxy clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) redMaPPer sample, using cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature data from SPT-3G, the third-generation CMB camera on the South Pole Telescope (SPT). We estimate the lensing signal using temperature maps constructed from the initial 2 years of data from the SPT-3G 'Main' survey, covering 1500 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky. We then use this signal as a proxy for the mean cluster mass of the DES sample. In this work, we employ three versions of the redMaPPer catalogue: a Flux-Limited sample containing 8865 clusters, a Volume-Limited sample with 5391 clusters, and a Volume&Redshift-Limited sample with 4450 clusters. For the three samples, we find the mean cluster masses to be ${M}_{200{\rm{m}}}=1.66\pm0.13$ [stat.]$\pm0.03$ [sys.], $1.97\pm0.18$ [stat.]$\pm0.05$ [sys.], and $2.11\pm0.20$ [stat.]$\pm0.05$ [sys.]$\times{10}^{14}\ {\rm{M}}_{\odot }$, respectively. This is a factor of $\sim2$ improvement relative to the precision of measurements with previous generations of SPT surveys and the most constraining cluster mass measurements using CMB cluster lensing to date. Overall, we find no significant tensions between our results and masses given by redMaPPer mass-richness scaling relations of previous works, which were calibrated using CMB cluster lensing, optical weak lensing, and velocity dispersion measurements from various combinations of DES, SDSS and Planck data. We then divide our sample into 3 redshift and 3 richness bins, finding no significant tensions with optical weak-lensing calibrated masses in these bins. We forecast a $5.7\%$ constraint on the mean cluster mass of the DES Y3 sample with the complete SPT-3G surveys when using both temperature and polarization data and including an additional $\sim1400$ deg$^2$ of observations from the 'Extended' SPT-3G survey., Comment: 23 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP. Minor changes and corrections have been made relative to v1
Published: 2024

4. Testing the $\mathbf{\Lambda}$CDM Cosmological Model with Forthcoming Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G

Author: Prabhu, K., Raghunathan, S., Millea, M., Lynch, G., Ade, P. A. R., Anderes, E., Anderson, A. J., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Balkenhol, L., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Coerver, A., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fichman, K., Foster, A., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Ge, F., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Hryciuk, A., Huang, N., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kornoelje, K., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Levy, K., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., Menanteau, F., Montgomery, J., Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Phadke, K. A., Quan, W., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Schiappucci, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vitrier, A., Vieira, J. D., Wan, Y., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Young, M. R., and Zebrowski, J. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We forecast constraints on cosmological parameters enabled by three surveys conducted with SPT-3G, the third-generation camera on the South Pole Telescope. The surveys cover separate regions of 1500, 2650, and 6000 ${\rm deg}^{2}$ to different depths, in total observing 25% of the sky. These regions will be measured to white noise levels of roughly 2.5, 9, and 12 $\mu{\rm K-arcmin}$, respectively, in CMB temperature units at 150 GHz by the end of 2024. The survey also includes measurements at 95 and 220 GHz, which have noise levels a factor of ~1.2 and 3.5 times higher than 150 GHz, respectively, with each band having a polarization noise level ~$\sqrt{\text{2}}$ times higher than the temperature noise. We use a novel approach to obtain the covariance matrices for jointly and optimally estimated gravitational lensing potential bandpowers and unlensed CMB temperature and polarization bandpowers. We demonstrate the ability to test the $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ model via the consistency of cosmological parameters constrained independently from SPT-3G and Planck data, and consider the improvement in constraints on $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ extension parameters from a joint analysis of SPT-3G and Planck data. The $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ cosmological parameters are typically constrained with uncertainties up to ~2 times smaller with SPT-3G data, compared to Planck, with the two data sets measuring significantly different angular scales and polarization levels, providing additional tests of the standard cosmological model., Comment: 26 pages; 13 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ; Minor edits have been made
Published: 2024

5. First Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization Using the non-Gaussianity of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich Effect from the South Pole Telescope and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE Observations

Author: Raghunathan, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Balkenhol, L., Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Citron, R., Coerver, A., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fichman, K., Foster, A., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Ge, F., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Gupta, N., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Hrubes, J. D., Hryciuk, A., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Kéruzoré, F., Khalife, A. R., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kornoelje, K., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Levy, K., Li, D., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., Martsen, E. S., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Phadke, K. A., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Viero, M. P., Wan, Y., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Young, M. R., Zebrowski, J. A., and Zemcov, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report results from an analysis aimed at detecting the trispectrum of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel{'}dovich (kSZ) effect by combining data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and {\it Herschel}-SPIRE experiments over a 100 ${\rm deg}^{2}$ field. The SPT observations combine data from the previous and current surveys, namely SPTpol and SPT-3G, to achieve depths of 4.5, 3, and 16 $\mu {\rm K-arcmin}$ in bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. For SPIRE, we include data from the 600 and 857 GHz bands. We reconstruct the velocity-induced large-scale correlation of the small-scale kSZ signal with a quadratic estimator that uses two cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps, constructed by optimally combining data from all the frequency bands. We reject the null hypothesis of a zero trispectrum at $10.3\sigma$ level. However, the measured trispectrum contains contributions from both the kSZ and other undesired components, such as CMB lensing and astrophysical foregrounds, with kSZ being sub-dominant. We use the \textsc{Agora} simulations to estimate the expected signal from CMB lensing and astrophysical foregrounds. After accounting for the contributions from CMB lensing and foreground signals, we do not detect an excess kSZ-only trispectrum and use this non-detection to set constraints on reionization. By applying a prior based on observations of the Gunn-Peterson trough, we obtain an upper limit on the duration of reionization of $\Delta z_{\rm re, 50} < 4.5$ (95\% C.L). We find these constraints are fairly robust to foregrounds assumptions. This trispectrum measurement is independent of, but consistent with, {\it Planck}'s optical depth measurement. This result is the first constraint on the epoch of reionization using the non-Gaussian nature of the kSZ signal., Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures (3 in main text and 2 in Appendix); Accepted for publication in PRL; Some texts have been moved to Appendix; Minor change in Fig. 2 to include nomalization; Data products and plotting scripts can be downloaded from https://github.com/sriniraghunathan/kSZ_4pt_SPT_SPIRE
Published: 2024

6. Flaring Stars in a Non-targeted mm-wave Survey with SPT-3G

Author: Tandoi, C., Guns, S., Foster, A., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Balkenhol, L., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Coerver, A., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fichman, K., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Ge, F., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Huang, N., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kornoelje, K., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Levy, K., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., Menanteau, F., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Moon, Y., Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Phadke, K. A., Prabhu, K., Qu, Z., Quan, W., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Reuter, C., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Schiappucci, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vieira, J. D., Wan, Y., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Young, M. R., and Zebrowski, J. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We present a flare star catalog from four years of non-targeted millimeter-wave survey data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data were taken with the SPT-3G camera and cover a 1500-square-degree region of the sky from $20^{h}40^{m}0^{s}$ to $3^{h}20^{m}0^{s}$ in right ascension and $-42^{\circ}$ to $-70^{\circ}$ in declination. This region was observed on a nearly daily cadence from 2019-2022 and chosen to avoid the plane of the galaxy. A short-duration transient search of this survey yields 111 flaring events from 66 stars, increasing the number of both flaring events and detected flare stars by an order of magnitude from the previous SPT-3G data release. We provide cross-matching to Gaia DR3, as well as matches to X-ray point sources found in the second ROSAT all-sky survey. We have detected flaring stars across the main sequence, from early-type A stars to M dwarfs, as well as a large population of evolved stars. These stars are mostly nearby, spanning 10 to 1000 parsecs in distance. Most of the flare spectral indices are constant or gently rising as a function of frequency at 95/150/220 GHz. The timescale of these events can range from minutes to hours, and the peak $\nu L_{\nu}$ luminosities range from $10^{27}$ to $10^{31}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the SPT-3G frequency bands.
Published: 2024

7. SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. II. Cosmological Constraints from the Abundance of Massive Halos

Author: Bocquet, S., Grandis, S., Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Mohr, J. J., Schrabback, T., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Allen, S. W., Alves, O., Amon, A., Anderson, A. J., Annis, J., Ansarinejad, B., Austermann, J. E., Avila, S., Bacon, D., Bayliss, M., Beall, J. A., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bhargava, S., Bianchini, F., Brodwin, M., Brooks, D., Bryant, L., Campos, A., Canning, R. E. A., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C. L., Chang, C., Chaubal, P., Chen, R., Chiang, H. C., Choi, A., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Cordero, J., Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Davis, C., Davis, T. M., DeRose, J., Desai, S., de Haan, T., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Dodelson, S., Doux, C., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Elvin-Poole, J., Everett, S., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flores, A. M., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., García-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Gladders, M. D., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, I., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Huff, E. M., Huterer, D., Irwin, K. D., James, D. J., Jarvis, M., Khullar, G., Kim, K., Knox, L., Kraft, R., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Kéruzoré, F., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Leget, P. -F., Li, D., Lin, H., Lowitz, A., MacCrann, N., Mahler, G., Mantz, A., Marshall, J. L., McCullough, J., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Montgomery, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Navarro-Alsina, A., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pandey, S., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Porredon, A., Prat, J., Pryke, C., Raveri, M., Reichardt, C. L., Roberson, J., Rollins, R. P., Romero, C., Roodman, A., Ruhl, J. E., Rykoff, E. S., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Cid, D. Sanchez, Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Secco, L. F., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharon, K., Sheldon, E., Shin, T., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Sommer, M., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Strazzullo, V., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., To, C., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, C., Tutusaus, I., Varga, T. N., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vikhlinin, A., von der Linden, A., Wang, G., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yanny, B., Yefremenko, V., Yin, B., Young, M., Zebrowski, J. A., Zhang, Y., Zohren, H., and Zuntz, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present cosmological constraints from the abundance of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data with a simultaneous mass calibration using weak gravitational lensing data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The cluster sample is constructed from the combined SPT-SZ, SPTpol ECS, and SPTpol 500d surveys, and comprises 1,005 confirmed clusters in the redshift range $0.25-1.78$ over a total sky area of 5,200 deg$^2$. We use DES Year 3 weak-lensing data for 688 clusters with redshifts $z<0.95$ and HST weak-lensing data for 39 clusters with $0.6
Published: 2024

8. Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

Author: Bleem, L. E., Klein, M., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Anderson, A. J., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Ashby, M. L. N., Austermann, J. E., Bacon, D., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Calzadilla, M., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carretero, J., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Costanzi, M., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., da Costa, L. N., de Haan, T., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Everett, W., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Floyd, B., Friedel, D., Frieman, J., Gallicchio, J., Garc'ia-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., George, E. M., Giannini, G., Grandis, S., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Mena-Fernández, J., James, D. J., Kéruzoré, F., Knox, L., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lee, S., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Marshal, J. L., McDonald, M., McMahon, J. J., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Myles, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malag'on, A. A. Plazas, Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Rodr'iguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Salvati, L., Sanchez, E., Saro, A., Schaffer, K. K., Schrabback, T., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Somboonpanyakul, T., Stalder, B., Stark, A. A., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., To, C., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vincenzi, M., Wang, G., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wiseman, P., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zebrowski, J. A., and Zhang, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We present a catalog of 689 galaxy cluster candidates detected at significance $\xi>4$ via their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature in 95 and 150 GHz data from the 500-square-degree SPTpol survey. We use optical and infrared data from the Dark Energy Camera and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and \spitzer \ satellites, to confirm 544 of these candidates as clusters with $\sim94\%$ purity. The sample has an approximately redshift-independent mass threshold at redshift $z>0.25$ and spans $1.5 \times 10^{14} < M_{500c} < 9.1 \times 10^{14}$ $M_\odot/h_{70}$ \ and $0.031$. We use external radio data from the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) to estimate contamination to the SZ signal from synchrotron sources. The contamination reduces the recovered $\xi$ by a median value of 0.032, or $\sim0.8\%$ of the $\xi=4$ threshold value, and $\sim7\%$ of candidates have a predicted contamination greater than $\Delta \xi = 1$. With the exception of a small number of systems $(<1\%)$, an analysis of clusters detected in single-frequency 95 and 150 GHz data shows no significant contamination of the SZ signal by emission from dusty or synchrotron sources. This cluster sample will be a key component in upcoming astrophysical and cosmological analyses of clusters. The SPTpol millimeter-wave maps and associated data products used to produce this sample are available at https://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptpol_500d_clusters/index.html, and the NASA LAMBDA website. An interactive sky server with the SPTpol maps and Dark Energy Survey data release 2 images is also available at NCSA https://skyviewer.ncsa.illinois.edu., Comment: Matches version accepted by OJA. 19 pages + references, 14 figures, cluster candidate table provided in Appendix. Data products available at https://pole.uchicago.edu/public/data/sptpol_500d_clusters/index.html and an interactive sky server at https://skyviewer.ncsa.illinois.edu
Published: 2023
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9. Large-area photon calorimeter with Ir-Pt bilayer transition-edge sensor for the CUPID experiment

Author: Singh, V, Beretta, M, Hansen, EV, Vetter, KJ, Benato, G, Marini, L, Capelli, C, Fujikawa, BK, Schmidt, B, Chang, CL, Kolomensky, Yu G, Welliver, B, Kwok, WK, Pearson, J, Welp, U, Lisovenko, M, Wang, G, Yefremenko, V, Zhang, J, and Novosad, V
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Physical sciences
Abstract: CUPID is a next-generation neutrinoless double-β decay experiment that will require cryogenic light detectors to improve background suppression, via the simultaneous readout of heat and light channels from its scintillating crystals. In this work, we showcase light detectors based on an alternative Ir-Pt bilayer transition-edge sensor. We have performed a systematic study to improve the thermal coupling between the photon absorber and the sensor, and thereby its responsivity. Our first devices meet CUPID's baseline noise requirement of
Published: 2023

10. A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Using SPT-3G 2018 Data

Author: Pan, Z., Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderes, E., Anderson, A. J., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Chichura, P. M., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T. -L., Cliche, J. -F., Coerver, A., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K. R., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fichman, K., Foster, A., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Ge, F., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Kéruzoré, F., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Levy, K., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Maniyar, A., Menanteau, F., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Raghunathan, S., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Takakura, S., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Trendafilova, C., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, M. R., and Zebrowski, J. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a measurement of gravitational lensing over 1500 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky using SPT-3G temperature data at 95 and 150 GHz taken in 2018. The lensing amplitude relative to a fiducial Planck 2018 $\Lambda$CDM cosmology is found to be $1.020\pm0.060$, excluding instrumental and astrophysical systematic uncertainties. We conduct extensive systematic and null tests to check the robustness of the lensing measurements, and report a minimum-variance combined lensing power spectrum over angular multipoles of $50
Published: 2023
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11. A first test of CUPID prototypal light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a pulse-tube cryostat

Author: CUPID collaboration, Alfonso, K., Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Berest, V., Beretta, M., Bettelli, M., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camilleri, J., Campani, A., Capelli, C., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Copello, S., Craft, E., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dabagov, S., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Di Lorenzo, S., Dixon, T., Dompé, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Foggetta, L., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallas, A., Gascon, J., Ghislandi, S., Giachero, A., Gianvecchio, A., Girola, M., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Grant, C., Gras, P., Guillaumon, P. V., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kowalski, R., Langford, T., Lefevre, M., Liu, R., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mas, Ph., Mayer, D., Mazzitelli, G., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nikkel, J., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O'Donnell, T., Olivieri, E., Olmi, M., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Ponce, I., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Quitadamo, S., Ressa, A., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Rosier, P., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Slocum, P., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tomei, C., Torres, J. A., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Wang, R., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Umatov, V. I., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: CUPID is a next-generation bolometric experiment aiming at searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with ~250 kg of isotopic mass of $^{100}$Mo. It will operate at $\sim$10 mK in a cryostat currently hosting a similar-scale bolometric array for the CUORE experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy). CUPID will be based on large-volume scintillating bolometers consisting of $^{100}$Mo-enriched Li$_2$MoO$_4$ crystals, facing thin Ge-wafer-based bolometric light detectors. In the CUPID design, the detector structure is novel and needs to be validated. In particular, the CUORE cryostat presents a high level of mechanical vibrations due to the use of pulse tubes and the effect of vibrations on the detector performance must be investigated. In this paper we report the first test of the CUPID-design bolometric light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a dilution refrigerator equipped with a pulse tube in an above-ground lab. Light detectors are characterized in terms of sensitivity, energy resolution, pulse time constants, and noise power spectrum. Despite the challenging noisy environment due to pulse-tube-induced vibrations, we demonstrate that all the four tested light detectors comply with the CUPID goal in terms of intrinsic energy resolution of 100 eV RMS baseline noise. Indeed, we have measured 70--90 eV RMS for the four devices, which show an excellent reproducibility. We have also obtained outstanding energy resolutions at the 356 keV line from a $^{133}$Ba source with one light detector achieving 0.71(5) keV FWHM, which is -- to our knowledge -- the best ever obtained when compared to $\gamma$ detectors of any technology in this energy range., Comment: Prepared for submission to JINST; 16 pages, 7 figures, and 1 table
Published: 2023
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12. Twelve-crystal prototype of Li$_2$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments

Author: CUPID, collaborations, CROSS, Alfonso, K., Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Bandac, I. C., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Berest, V., Beretta, M., Bettelli, M., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Calvo-Mozota, J. M., Camilleri, J., Campani, A., Capelli, C., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Copello, S., Craft, E., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dabagov, S., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Di Lorenzo, S., Dixon, T., Dompé, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Foggetta, L., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallas, A., Gascon, J., Ghislandi, S., Giachero, A., Gianvecchio, A., Girola, M., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Grant, C., Gras, P., Guillaumon, P. V., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Ianni, A., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kowalski, R., Langford, T., Lefevre, M., Liu, R., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Marrache-Kikuchi, C. A., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mas, Ph., Mayer, D., Mazzitelli, G., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nikkel, J., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O'Donnell, T., Olivieri, E., Olmi, M., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Ponce, I., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Quitadamo, S., Ressa, A., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Rosier, P., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Slocum, P., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tomei, C., Torres, J. A., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Wang, R., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Umatov, V. I., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: An array of twelve 0.28 kg lithium molybdate (LMO) low-temperature bolometers equipped with 16 bolometric Ge light detectors, aiming at optimization of detector structure for CROSS and CUPID double-beta decay experiments, was constructed and tested in a low-background pulse-tube-based cryostat at the Canfranc underground laboratory in Spain. Performance of the scintillating bolometers was studied depending on the size of phonon NTD-Ge sensors glued to both LMO and Ge absorbers, shape of the Ge light detectors (circular vs. square, from two suppliers), in different light collection conditions (with and without reflector, with aluminum coated LMO crystal surface). The scintillating bolometer array was operated over 8 months in the low-background conditions that allowed to probe a very low, $\mu$Bq/kg, level of the LMO crystals radioactive contamination by $^{228}$Th and $^{226}$Ra., Comment: Prepared for submission to JINST; 23 pages, 9 figures, and 4 tables
Published: 2023
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13. Low-loss Si-based Dielectrics for High Frequency Components of Superconducting Detectors

Author: Lisovenko, M., Pan, Z., Barry, P. S., Cecil, T., Chang, C. L., Gualtieri, R., Li, J., Novosad, V., Wang, G., and Yefremenko, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Silicon-based dielectric is crucial for many superconducting devices, including high-frequency transmission lines, filters, and resonators. Defects and contaminants in the amorphous dielectric and at the interfaces between the dielectric and metal layers can cause microwave losses and degrade device performance. Optimization of the dielectric fabrication, device structure, and surface morphology can help mitigate this problem. We present the fabrication of silicon oxide and nitride thin film dielectrics. We then characterized them using Scanning Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, and spectrophotometry techniques. The samples were synthesized using various deposition methods, including Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition and magnetron sputtering. The films morphology and structure were modified by adjusting the deposition pressure and gas flow. The resulting films were used in superconducting resonant systems consisting of planar inductors and capacitors. Measurements of the resonator properties, including their quality factor, were performed., Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, conference
Published: 2023
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14. Noise Optimization for MKIDs with Different Design Geometries and Material Selections

Author: Pan, Z., Dibert, K. R., Zhang, J., Barry, P. S., Anderson, A. J., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Cecil, T., Chang, C. L., Gualtieri, R., Li, J., Lisovenko, M., Novosad, V., Rouble, M., Wang, G., and Yefremenko, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The separation and optimization of noise components is critical to microwave-kinetic inductance detector (MKID) development. We analyze the effect of several changes to the lumped-element inductor and interdigitated capacitor geometry on the noise performance of a series of MKIDs intended for millimeter-wavelength experiments. We extract the contributions from two-level system noise in the dielectric layer, the generation-recombination noise intrinsic to the superconducting thin-film, and system white noise from each detector noise power spectrum and characterize how these noise components depend on detector geometry, material, and measurement conditions such as driving power and temperature. We observe a reduction in the amplitude of two-level system noise with both an elevated sample temperature and an increased gap between the fingers within the interdigitated capacitors for both aluminum and niobium detectors. We also verify the expected reduction of the generation-recombination noise and associated quasiparticle lifetime with reduced inductor volume. This study also iterates over different materials, including aluminum, niobium, and aluminum manganese, and compares the results with an underlying physical model.
Published: 2023
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15. Measurement of Dielectric Loss in Silicon Nitride at Centimeter and Millimeter Wavelengths

Author: Pan, Z., Barry, P. S., Cecil, T., Albert, C., Bender, A. N., Chang, C. L., Gualtieri, R., Hood, J., Li, J., Zhang, J., Lisovenko, M., Novosad, V., Wang, G., and Yefremenko, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: This work presents a suite of measurement techniques for characterizing the dielectric loss tangent across a wide frequency range from $\sim$1 GHz to 150 GHz using the same test chip. In the first method, we fit data from a microwave resonator at different temperatures to a model that captures the two-level system (TLS) response to extract and characterize both the real and imaginary components of the dielectric loss. The inverse of the internal quality factor is a second measure of the overall loss of the resonator, where TLS loss through the dielectric material is typically the dominant source. The third technique is a differential optical measurement at 150 GHz. The same antenna feeds two microstrip lines with different lengths that terminate in two microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). The difference in the detector response is used to estimate the loss per unit length of the microstrip line. Our results suggest a larger loss for SiN$_x$ at 150 GHz of ${\mathrm{\tan \delta\sim 4\times10^{-3}}}$ compared to ${\mathrm{2.0\times10^{-3}}}$ and ${\mathrm{\gtrsim 1\times10^{-3}}}$ measured at $\sim$1 GHz using the other two methods. {These measurement techniques can be applied to other dielectrics by adjusting the microstrip lengths to provide enough optical efficiency contrast and other mm/sub-mm frequency ranges by tuning the antenna and feedhorn accordingly.
Published: 2023
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16. Electromagnetic Properties of Aluminum-based Bilayers for Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Author: Wang, G., Barry, P. S., Cecil, T., Chang, C. L., Li, J., Lisovenko, M., Novosad, V., Pan, Z., Yefremenko, V. G., and Zhang, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The complex conductivity of a superconducting thin film is related to the quasiparticle density, which depends on the physical temperature and can also be modified by external pair breaking with photons and phonons. This relationship forms the underlying operating principle of Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs), where the detection threshold is governed by the superconducting energy gap. We investigate the electromagnetic properties of thin-film aluminum that is proximitized with either a normal metal layer of copper or a superconducting layer with a lower $T_C$, such as iridium, in order to extend the operating range of KIDs. Using the Usadel equations along with the Nam expressions for complex conductivity, we calculate the density of states and the complex conductivity of the resulting bilayers to understand the dependence of the pair breaking threshold, surface impedance, and intrinsic quality factor of superconducting bilayers on the relative film thicknesses. The calculations and analyses provide theoretical insights in designing aluminum-based bilayer kinetic inductance detectors for detection of microwave photons and athermal phonons at the frequencies well below the pair breaking threshold of a pure aluminum film., Comment: Submitted as a proceeding for Applied Superconductivity Conference 2022
Published: 2023
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17. Measurement of the CMB temperature power spectrum and constraints on cosmology from the SPT-3G 2018 TT, TE, and EE dataset

Author: Balkenhol, L, Dutcher, D, Mancini, A Spurio, Doussot, A, Benabed, K, Galli, S, Ade, PAR, Anderson, AJ, Ansarinejad, B, Archipley, M, Bender, AN, Benson, BA, Bianchini, F, Bleem, LE, Bouchet, FR, Bryant, L, Camphuis, E, Carlstrom, JE, Cecil, TW, Chang, CL, Chaubal, P, Chichura, PM, Chou, T-L, Coerver, A, Crawford, TM, Cukierman, A, Daley, C, de Haan, T, Dibert, KR, Dobbs, MA, Everett, W, Feng, C, Ferguson, KR, Foster, A, Gambrel, AE, Gardner, RW, Goeckner-Wald, N, Gualtieri, R, Guidi, F, Guns, S, Halverson, NW, Hivon, E, Holder, GP, Holzapfel, WL, Hood, JC, Huang, N, Knox, L, Korman, M, Kuo, C-L, Lee, AT, Lowitz, AE, Lu, C, Millea, M, Montgomery, J, Nakato, Y, Natoli, T, Noble, GI, Novosad, V, Omori, Y, Padin, S, Pan, Z, Paschos, P, Prabhu, K, Quan, W, Rahimi, M, Rahlin, A, Reichardt, CL, Rouble, M, Ruhl, JE, Schiappucci, E, Smecher, G, Sobrin, JA, Stark, AA, Stephen, J, Suzuki, A, Tandoi, C, Thompson, KL, Thorne, B, Tucker, C, Umilta, C, Vieira, JD, Wang, G, Whitehorn, N, Wu, WLK, Yefremenko, V, Young, MR, and Zebrowski, JA
Subjects: Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences
Abstract: We present a sample-variance-limited measurement of the temperature power spectrum (TT) of the cosmic microwave background using observations of a ∼1500 deg2 field made by the SPT-3G in 2018. We report multifrequency power spectrum measurements at 95, 150, and 220 GHz covering the angular multipole range 750≤ℓ
Published: 2023

18. Simultaneous Millimeter-wave, Gamma-ray, and Optical Monitoring of the Blazar PKS 2326-502 During a Flaring State

Author: Hood II, J. C., Simpson, A., McDaniel, A., Foster, A., Ade, P. A. R., Ajello, M., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Madejski, G., Malkan, M., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Zebrowski, J. A., and Zhang, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Including millimeter-wave (mm-wave) data in multi-wavelength studies of the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can provide insights into AGN physics that are not easily accessible at other wavelengths. We demonstrate in this work the potential of cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes to provide long-term, high-cadence mm-wave AGN monitoring over large fractions of sky. We report on a pilot study using data from the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which was designed to observe the CMB at arcminute and larger angular scales. Between 2013 and 2016, SPTpol was used primarily to observe a single 500 deg^2 field, covering the entire field several times per day with detectors sensitive to radiation in bands centered at 95 and 150 GHz. We use SPT 150 GHz observations to create AGN light curves, and we compare these mm-wave light curves to those at other wavelengths, in particular gamma-ray and optical. In this Letter, we focus on a single source, PKS 2326-502, which has extensive, day-timescale monitoring data in gamma-ray, optical, and now mm-wave between 2013 and 2016. We find PKS 2326-502 to be in a flaring state in the first two years of this monitoring, and we present a search for evidence of correlated variability between mm-wave, optical R band, and gamma-ray observations. This pilot study is paving the way for AGN monitoring with current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4, including multi-wavelength studies with facilities such as VRO-LSST., Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Astrophysical Journal Letters
Published: 2023
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19. Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Author: Adams, C., Alfonso, K., Andreoiu, C., Angelico, E., Arnquist, I. J., Asaadi, J. A. A., Avignone, F. T., Axani, S. N., Barabash, A. S., Barbeau, P. S., Baudis, L., Bellini, F., Beretta, M., Bhatta, T., Biancacci, V., Biassoni, M., Bossio, E., Breur, P. A., Brodsky, J. P., Brofferio, C., Brown, E., Brugnera, R., Brunner, T., Burlac, N., Caden, E., Calgaro, S., Cao, G. F., Cao, L., Capelli, C., Cardani, L., Fernandez, R. Castillo, Cattadori, C. M., Chana, B., Chernyak, D., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H., Church, E., Cirigliano, V., Collister, R., Comellato, T., Dalmasson, J., D'Andrea, V., Daniels, T., Darroch, L., Decowski, M. P., Demarteau, M., Peixoto, S. De Meireles, Detwiler, J. A., DeVoe, R. G., Di Domizio, S., Di Marco, N., di Vacri, M. L., Dolinski, M. J., Efremenko, Yu., Elbeltagi, M., Elliott, S. R., Engel, J., Fabris, L., Fairbank, W. M., Farine, J., Febbraro, M., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Fields, D. E., Formaggio, J. A., Foust, B. T., Franke, B., Fu, Y., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallacher, D., Gallina, G., Garfagnini, A., Gingras, C., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gold, M., Gornea, R., Grant, C., Gratta, G., Green, M. P., Grinyer, G. F., Gruszko, J., Guan, Y., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Gutierrez, T. D., Hansen, E. V., Hardy, C. A., Hauptman, J., Heffner, M., Heeger, K. M., Henning, R., Hergert, H., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hodak, R., Holt, J. D., Hoppe, E. W., Horoi, M., Huang, H. Z., Inoue, K., Jamil, A., Jochum, J., Jones, B. J. P., Kaizer, J., Karapetrov, G., Kharusi, S. Al, Kidd, M. F., Kishimoto, Y., Klein, J. R., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Kontul, I., Kornoukhov, V. N., Krause, P., Krucken, R., Kumar, K. S., Lang, K., Leach, K. G., Lenardo, B. G., Leonhardt, A., Li, A., Li, G., Li, Z., Licciardi, C., Lindsay, R., Lippi, I., Liu, J., Macko, M., MacLellan, R., Macolino, C., Majidi, S., Mamedov, F., Masbou, J., Massarczyk, R., Mastbaum, A. T., Mayer, D., Mazumdar, A., Mei, D. M., Mei, Y., Meijer, S. J., Mereghetti, E., Mertens, S., Mistry, K., Mitsui, T., Moore, D. C., Morella, M., Nattress, J. T., Neuberger, M., Ngwadla, X. E., Nones, C., Novosad, V., Nygren, D. R., Ondze, J. C. Nzobadila, O'Donnell, T., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Orrell, J. L., Ortega, G. S., Ouellet, J. L., Overman, C., Pagani, L., Palusova, V., Para, A., Pavan, M., Perna, A., Pertoldi, L., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Piseri, P., Pocar, A., Povinec, P., Psihas, F., Pullia, A., Radford, D. C., Ramonnye, G. J, Rasiwala, H., Redchuk, M., Riboldi, S., Richardson, G., Rielage, K., Rogers, L., Rowson, P. C., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Sada, C., Salamanna, G., Salamida, F., Saldanha, R., Salvat, D. J., Sangiorgio, S., Schaper, D. C., Schoenert, S., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, S. E., Shitov, Y., Simkovic, F., Singh, V., Slavickova, M., Sousa, A. C., Spadoni, F. L., Speller, D. H., Stekl, I., Sumathi, R. R., Surukuchi, P. T., Tayloe, R., Tornow, W., Torres, J. A., Totev, T. I., Triambak, S., Tyuka, O. A., Vasilyev, S. I., Velazquez, M., Viel, S., Vogl, C., von Strum, K., Wang, Q., Waters, D., Watkins, S. L., Watts, M., Wei, W. -Z., Welliver, B., Wen, Liangjian, Wichoski, U., Wilde, S., Wilkerson, J. F., Winslow, L., Wiseman, C., Wu, X., Xu, W., Yang, H., Yang, L., Yu, C. H., Zeman, J., Zennamo, J., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta decay as a critical component of the future nuclear physics program. The major experimental collaborations and many theorists have endorsed this white paper., Comment: white paper submitted for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting in support of the US Nuclear Physics Long Range Planning Process
Published: 2022

20. A Measurement of the CMB Temperature Power Spectrum and Constraints on Cosmology from the SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE Data Set

Author: Balkenhol, L., Dutcher, D., Mancini, A. Spurio, Doussot, A., Benabed, K., Galli, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Ansarinejad, B., Archipley, M., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Coerver, A., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Dibert, K. R., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Foster, A., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Huang, N., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nakato, Y., Natoli, T., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Rahimi, M., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Schiappucci, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Young, M. R., and Zebrowski, J. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a sample-variance-limited measurement of the temperature power spectrum ($TT$) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using observations of a $\sim\! 1500 \,\mathrm{deg}^2$ field made by SPT-3G in 2018. We report multifrequency power spectrum measurements at 95, 150, and 220GHz covering the angular multipole range $750 \leq \ell < 3000$. We combine this $TT$ measurement with the published polarization power spectrum measurements from the 2018 observing season and update their associated covariance matrix to complete the SPT-3G 2018 $TT/TE/EE$ data set. This is the first analysis to present cosmological constraints from SPT $TT$, $TE$, and $EE$ power spectrum measurements jointly. We blind the cosmological results and subject the data set to a series of consistency tests at the power spectrum and parameter level. We find excellent agreement between frequencies and spectrum types and our results are robust to the modeling of astrophysical foregrounds. We report results for $\Lambda$CDM and a series of extensions, drawing on the following parameters: the amplitude of the gravitational lensing effect on primary power spectra $A_\mathrm{L}$, the effective number of neutrino species $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$, the primordial helium abundance $Y_{\mathrm{P}}$, and the baryon clumping factor due to primordial magnetic fields $b$. We find that the SPT-3G 2018 $T/TE/EE$ data are well fit by $\Lambda$CDM with a probability-to-exceed of $15\%$. For $\Lambda$CDM, we constrain the expansion rate today to $H_0 = 68.3 \pm 1.5\,\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}\,Mpc^{-1}}$ and the combined structure growth parameter to $S_8 = 0.797 \pm 0.042$. The SPT-based results are effectively independent of Planck, and the cosmological parameter constraints from either data set are within $<1\,\sigma$ of each other. (abridged), Comment: 35 Pages, 17 Figures, 11 Tables
Published: 2022
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21. Simultaneous Millimeter-wave, Gamma-Ray, and Optical Monitoring of the Blazar PKS 2326-502 during a Flaring State

Author: Hood, JC, Simpson, A, McDaniel, A, Foster, A, Ade, PAR, Ajello, M, Anderson, AJ, Austermann, JE, Beall, JA, Bender, AN, Benson, BA, Bianchini, F, Bleem, LE, Carlstrom, JE, Chang, CL, Chaubal, P, Chiang, HC, Chou, T-L, Citron, R, Moran, C Corbett, Crawford, TM, Crites, AT, de Haan, T, Dobbs, MA, Everett, W, Gallicchio, J, George, EM, Gupta, N, Halverson, NW, Hilton, GC, Holder, GP, Holzapfel, WL, Hrubes, JD, Huang, N, Hubmayr, J, Irwin, KD, Knox, L, Lee, AT, Li, D, Lowitz, A, Madejski, G, Malkan, M, McMahon, JJ, Meyer, SS, Montgomery, J, Natoli, T, Nibarger, JP, Noble, G, Novosad, V, Omori, Y, Padin, S, Patil, S, Pryke, C, Reichardt, CL, Ruhl, JE, Saliwanchik, BR, Schaffer, KK, Sievers, C, Smecher, G, Stark, AA, Tucker, C, Veach, T, Vieira, JD, Wang, G, Whitehorn, N, Wu, WLK, Yefremenko, V, Zebrowski, JA, and Zhang, L
Subjects: Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Abstract: Abstract Including millimeter-wave data in multiwavelength studies of the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can provide insights into AGN physics that are not easily accessible at other wavelengths. We demonstrate in this work the potential of cosmic microwave background (CMB) telescopes to provide long-term, high-cadence millimeter-wave AGN monitoring over large fractions of sky. We report on a pilot study using data from the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which was designed to observe the CMB at arcminute and larger angular scales. Between 2013 and 2016, SPTpol was used primarily to observe a single 500 deg2 field, covering the entire field several times per day with detectors sensitive to radiation in bands centered at 95 and 150 GHz. We use SPT 150 GHz observations to create AGN light curves, and we compare these millimeter-wave light curves to those at other wavelengths, in particular γ-ray and optical. In this Letter, we focus on a single source, PKS 2326-502, which has extensive, day-timescale monitoring data in gamma-ray, optical, and now millimeter-wave between 2013 and 2016. We find PKS 2326-502 to be in a flaring state in the first 2 yr of this monitoring, and we present a search for evidence of correlated variability between millimeter-wave, optical R-band, and γ-ray observations. This pilot study is paving the way for AGN monitoring with current and upcoming CMB experiments such as SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4, including multiwavelength studies with facilities such as Vera C. Rubin Observatories Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
Published: 2023

22. Large area photon calorimeter with Ir-Pt bilayer transition-edge sensor for the CUPID experiment

Author: Singh, V., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Capelli, C., Chang, C. L., Fujikawa, B. K., Hansen, E. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Kwok, WK., Lisovenko, M., Marini, L., Novosad, V., Pearson, J., Schmidt, B., Vetter, K. J., Wang, G., Welliver, B., Welp, U., Yefremenko, V., and Zhang, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Applied Physics
Abstract: CUPID is a next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment that will require cryogenic light detectors to improve background suppression, via the simultaneous readout of heat and light channels from its scintillating crystals. In this work we showcase light detectors based on a novel Ir-Pt bilayer transition edge sensor. We have performed a systematic study to improve the thermal coupling between the photon absorber and the sensor, and thereby its responsivity. Our first devices meet CUPID's baseline noise requirement of <100~eV rms. Our detectors have risetimes of $\sim$180 $\mu$s and measured timing jitter of <20 $\mu$s for the expected signal-to-noise at the Q-value of the decay, which achieves the CUPID's criterion of rejecting two-neutrino double-beta decay pileup events. The current work will inform the fabrication of future devices, culminating in the final TES design and a scaleable readout scheme for CUPID., Comment: 12 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2022

23. A measurement of the mean central optical depth of galaxy clusters via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with SPT-3G and DES

Author: Schiappucci, E., Bianchini, F., Aguena, M., Archipley, M., Balkenhol, L., Bleem, L. E., Chaubal, P., Crawford, T. M., Grandis, S., Omori, Y., Reichardt, C. L., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., To, C., Abbott, T. M. C., Ade, P. A. R., Alves, O., Anderson, A. J., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Avva, J. S., Bacon, D., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Bouchet, F. R., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carlstrom, J. E., Rosell, A. Carnero, Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Costanzi, M., Cukierman, A., da Costa, L. N., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Desai, S., Dibert, K. R., Diehl, H. T., Dobbs, M. A., Doel, P., Doux, C., Dutcher, D., Everett, S., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Flaugher, B., Foster, A., Frieman, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., García-Bellido, J., Gardner, R. W., Gatti, M., Giannantonio, T., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gruen, D., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gutierrez, G., Halverson, N. W., Hinton, S. R., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Hollowood, D. L., Holzapfel, W. L., Honscheid, K., Hood, J. C., Huang, N., James, D. J., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kuehn, K., Kuo, C. -L., Lahav, O., Lee, A. T., Lidman, C., Lima, M., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., March, M., Mena-Fernández, J., Menanteau, F., Millea, M., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Muir, J., Natoli, T., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Ogando, R. L. C., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pereira, M. E. S., Pieres, A., Malagón, A. A. Plazas, Prabhu, K., Prat, J., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Raveri, M., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Smecher, G., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobrin, J. A., Suchyta, E., Suzuki, A., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vieira, J. D., Vincenzi, M., Wang, G., Weaverdyck, N., Weller, J., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We infer the mean optical depth of a sample of optically-selected galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. The pairwise kSZ signal between pairs of clusters drawn from the DES Year-3 cluster catalog is detected at $4.1 \sigma$ in cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from two years of observations with the SPT-3G camera on the South Pole Telescope. After cuts, there are 24,580 clusters in the $\sim 1,400$ deg$^2$ of the southern sky observed by both experiments. We infer the mean optical depth of the cluster sample with two techniques. The optical depth inferred from the pairwise kSZ signal is $\bar{\tau}_e = (2.97 \pm 0.73) \times 10^{-3}$, while that inferred from the thermal SZ signal is $\bar{\tau}_e = (2.51 \pm 0.55^{\text{stat}} \pm 0.15^{\rm syst}) \times 10^{-3}$. The two measures agree at $0.6 \sigma$. We perform a suite of systematic checks to test the robustness of the analysis.
Published: 2022
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24. Characterization of the Thermal Properties of Ir/Pt Bilayer Transition Edge Sensors

Author: Zhang, J, Chang, CL, Fujikawa, B, Karapetrov, G, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kwok, W-K, Lisovenko, M, Novosad, V, Pearson, J, Singh, V, Wang, G, Welliver, B, Welp, U, and Yefremenko, VG
Subjects: Transition edge sensor, Electron-phonon coupling, Iridium platinum bilayer, Gold, Mathematical Physics, Classical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, General Physics
Abstract: We are developing a low-Tc TES-based large-area and low-threshold detector targeting a variety of potential applications. The detector consists of a 50.8-mm-diameter Si wafer as the substrate and radiation absorber, a single Ir/Pt bilayer TES sensor in the center, and normal metal Au pads added to the TES to strengthen the TES–absorber thermal coupling. Tight TES–absorber thermal coupling improves detector sensitivity and response uniformity. Here, we report on the electron–phonon (e–ph) coupling strengths for the Ir/Pt bilayer and Au that are measured with our prototype detectors and TES devices. We found that a second weak thermal link besides the one due to e–ph coupling in Ir/Pt or Au was required to explain our data. With the effects of the second weak link accounted for, the extracted e–ph coupling constant Σ for Ir/Pt bilayer in the Tc range between 32 and 70 mK is 1.9×108WK-5m-3, and Σ’s for Au at 40 mK and 55 mK are 2.2×109WK-5m-3 and 3.2×109WK-5m-3, respectively.
Published: 2023

25. Searching for axion-like time-dependent cosmic birefringence with data from SPT-3G

Author: Ferguson, K. R., Anderson, A. J., Whitehorn, N., Ade, P. A. R., Archipley, M., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Camphuis, E., Carlstrom, J. E., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chichura, P. M., Chou, T. -L., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Dibert, K., Dobbs, M. A., Doussot, A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Foster, A., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guidi, F., Guns, S., Halverson, N. W., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Huang, N., Knox, L., Korman, M., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Schiappucci, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stephen, J., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are compelling dark matter candidates because of their potential to resolve small-scale discrepancies between $\Lambda$CDM predictions and cosmological observations. Axion-photon coupling induces a polarization rotation in linearly polarized photons traveling through an ALP field; thus, as the local ALP dark matter field oscillates in time, distant static polarized sources will appear to oscillate with a frequency proportional to the ALP mass. We use observations of the cosmic microwave background from SPT-3G, the current receiver on the South Pole Telescope, to set upper limits on the value of the axion-photon coupling constant $g_{\phi\gamma}$ over the approximate mass range $10^{-22} - 10^{-19}$ eV, corresponding to oscillation periods from 12 hours to 100 days. For periods between 1 and 100 days ($4.7 \times 10^{-22} \text{ eV} \leq m_\phi \leq 4.7 \times 10^{-20} \text{ eV}$), where the limit is approximately constant, we set a median 95% C.L. upper limit on the amplitude of on-sky polarization rotation of 0.071 deg. Assuming that dark matter comprises a single ALP species with a local dark matter density of $0.3\text{ GeV/cm}^3$, this corresponds to $g_{\phi\gamma} < 1.18 \times 10^{-12}\text{ GeV}^{-1} \times \left( \frac{m_{\phi}}{1.0 \times 10^{-21} \text{ eV}} \right)$. These new limits represent an improvement over the previous strongest limits set using the same effect by a factor of ~3.8., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Published: 2022
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26. Toward CUPID-1T

Author: Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Ballen, K., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bettelli, M., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camilleri, J., Capelli, C., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Copello, S., Craft, E., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dabagov, S., Dafinei, I., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Di Lorenzo, S., Dixon, T., Dompè, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Foggetta, L., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallas, A., Gascon, J., Ghislandi, S., Giachero, A., Gianvecchio, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Grant, C., Gras, P., Guillaumon, P. V., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R. G., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kowalski, R., Langford, T., Liu, R., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mauri, B., Mayer, D., Mazzitelli, G., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nikkel, J., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O'Donnell, T., Olivieri, E., Olmi, M., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Ponce, I., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Quitadamo, S., Ressa, A., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Rosier, P., Scarpaci, J., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Slocum, P., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tomei, C., Torres, J., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Wang, R., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Umatov, V. I., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Current experiments to search for broken lepton-number symmetry through the observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$) provide the most stringent limits on the Majorana nature of neutrinos and the effective Majorana neutrino mass ($m_{\beta\beta}$). The next-generation experiments will focus on the sensitivity to the $0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$ half-life of $\mathcal{O}(10^{27}$--$10^{28}$~years$)$ and $m_{\beta\beta}\lesssim15$~meV, which would provide complete coverage of the so-called Inverted Ordering region of the neutrino mass parameter space. By taking advantage of recent technological breakthroughs, new, future calorimetric experiments at the 1-ton scale can increase the sensitivity by at least another order of magnitude, exploring the large fraction of the parameter space that corresponds to the Normal neutrino mass ordering. In case of a discovery, such experiments could provide important insights toward a new understanding of the mechanism of $0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$. We present here a series of projects underway that will provide advancements in background reduction, cryogenic readout, and physics searches beyond $0\mathrm{\nu\beta\beta}$, all moving toward the next-to-next generation CUPID-1T detector., Comment: contribution to Snowmass 2021
Published: 2022

27. Optimization of the first CUPID detector module

Author: CUPID collaboration, Armatol, A., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Ballen, K., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bettelli, M., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camilleri, J., Capelli, C., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Copello, S., Craft, E., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dabagov, S., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Di Lorenzo, S., Dixon, T., Dompè, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Foggetta, L., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallas, A., Gascon, J., Ghislandi, S., Giachero, A., Gianvecchio, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Grant, C., Gras, P., Guillaumon, P. V., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R. G., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kowalski, R., Langford, T., Lefevre, M ., Liu, R., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mas, Ph., Mauri, B., Mayer, D., Mazzitelli, G., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Nikkel, J., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O'Donnell, T., Olivieri, E., Olmi, M., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Ponce, I., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Quitadamo, S., Ressa, A., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Rosier, P., Scarpaci, J., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Slocum, P., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tomei, C., Torres, J., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Wang, R., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Umatov, V. I., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: CUPID will be a next generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay, whose discovery would establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Based on the experience achieved with the CUORE experiment, presently taking data at LNGS, CUPID aims to reach a background free environment by means of scintillating Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals coupled to light detectors. Indeed, the simultaneous heat and light detection allows us to reject the dominant background of $\alpha$ particles, as proven by the CUPID-0 and CUPID-Mo demonstrators. In this work we present the results of the first test of the CUPID baseline module. In particular, we propose a new optimized detector structure and light sensors design to enhance the engineering and the light collection, respectively. We characterized the heat detectors, achieving an energy resolution of (5.9 $\pm$ 0.2) keV FWHM at the $Q$-value of $^{100}$Mo (about 3034 keV). We studied the light collection of the baseline CUPID design with respect to an alternative configuration which features gravity-assisted light detectors' mounting. In both cases we obtained an improvement in the light collection with respect to past measures and we validated the particle identification capability of the detector, which ensures an $\alpha$ particle rejection higher than 99.9%, fully satisfying the requirements for CUPID., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2022

28. Asteroid Measurements at Millimeter Wavelengths with the South Pole Telescope

Author: Chichura, P. M., Foster, A., Patel, C., Ossa-Jaen, N., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Chiang, H. C., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Cukierman, A., Daley, C. M., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Lu, C., Marrone, D. P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Patil, S., Pearson, J., Phadke, K. A., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Pryke, C., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Springmann, A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the first measurements of asteroids in millimeter wavelength (mm) data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which is used primarily to study the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We analyze maps of two $\sim270$ deg$^2$ sky regions near the ecliptic plane, each observed with the SPTpol camera $\sim100$ times over one month. We subtract the mean of all maps of a given field, removing static sky signal, and then average the mean-subtracted maps at known asteroid locations. We detect three asteroids$\text{ -- }$(324) Bamberga, (13) Egeria, and (22) Kalliope$\text{ -- }$with signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) of 11.2, 10.4, and 6.1, respectively, at 2.0 mm (150 GHz); we also detect (324) Bamberga with S/N of 4.1 at 3.2 mm (95 GHz). We place constraints on these asteroids' effective emissivities, brightness temperatures, and light curve modulation amplitude. Our flux density measurements of (324) Bamberga and (13) Egeria roughly agree with predictions, while our measurements of (22) Kalliope suggest lower flux, corresponding to effective emissivities of $0.66 \pm 0.11$ at 2.0 mm and $<0.47$ at 3.2mm. We predict the asteroids detectable in other SPT datasets and find good agreement with detections of (772) Tanete and (1093) Freda in recent data from the SPT-3G camera, which has $\sim10 \times$ the mapping speed of SPTpol. This work is the first focused analysis of asteroids in data from CMB surveys, and it demonstrates we can repurpose historic and future datasets for asteroid studies. Future SPT measurements can help constrain the distribution of surface properties over a larger asteroid population., Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2022
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29. Light Dark Matter Detection with Hydrogen-rich Crystals and Low-Tc TES Detectors

Author: Wang, G., Chang, C. L., Lisovenko, M., Novosad, V., Yefremenko, V. G., and Zhang, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Direct detection of nuclear scatterings of sub-GeV Dark Matter (DM) particles favors low-Z nuclei. Hydrogen nucleus, which has a single proton, provides the best kinematic match to a light dark matter particle. The characteristic nuclear recoil energy is boosted by a factor of a few tens from those for larger nuclei used in traditional Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) searches. Furthermore, hydrogen is optimal not only for spin-independent nuclear scatterings of sub-GeV DM, but also for spin-dependent nuclear scatterings, where large parameter space remains unconstrained. In this paper, we first introduce hydrogen-rich crystals, which include water ice, acetylene, anthracene, trans-stilbene, and naphthalene. These crystals emit two classes of signals under kinetic excitations. One class of the signals is infrared photons, which are from optically active fundamental vibrational modes of molecules and are at corresponding characteristic wavelengths. The other is acoustic phonons, and optical phonons that decay into acoustic phonons. We then discuss the technical status and future researches of low-Tc Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) detectors, which measure single infrared photons and a small flux of acoustic phonons with desirable sensitivities. With theoretical modeling to select the hydrogen-rich crystals for the optimized science reach, development of ultra-sensitive low-Tc TES detectors for readout, and experimentally characterizing transport properties of photons and phonons in the selected hydrogen-rich crystals, a direct detection experiment can be built for measuring the large unexplored parameter space of light DM particles., Comment: Contribution to Snowmass 2021
Published: 2022
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30. Roadmap on Spin-Wave Computing

Author: Chumak, A. V., Kabos, P., Wu, M., Abert, C., Adelmann, C., Adeyeye, A., Åkerman, J., Aliev, F. G., Anane, A., Awad, A., Back, C. H., Barman, A., Bauer, G. E. W., Becherer, M., Beginin, E. N., Bittencourt, V. A. S. V., Blanter, Y. M., Bortolotti, P., Boventer, I., Bozhko, D. A., Bunyaev, S. A., Carmiggelt, J. J., Cheenikundil, R. R., Ciubotaru, F., Cotofana, S., Csaba, G., Dobrovolskiy, O. V., Dubs, C., Elyasi, M., Fripp, K. G., Fulara, H., Golovchanskiy, I. A., Gonzalez-Ballestero, C., Graczyk, P., Grundler, D., Gruszecki, P., Gubbiotti, G., Guslienko, K., Haldar, A., Hamdioui, S., Hertel, R., Hillebrands, B., Hioki, T., Houshang, A., Hu, C. -M., Huebl, H., Huth, M., Iacocca, E., Jungfleisch, M. B., Kakazei, G. N., Khitun, A., Khymyn, R., Kikkawa, T., Kläui, M., Klein, O., Kłos, J. W., Knauer, S., Koraltan, S., Kostylev, M., Krawczyk, M., Krivorotov, I. N., Kruglyak, V. V., Lachance-Quirion, D., Ladak, S., Lebrun, R., Li, Y., Lindner, M., Macêdo, R., Mayr, S., Melkov, G. A., Mieszczak, S., Nakamura, Y., Nembach, H. T., Nikitin, A. A., Nikitov, S. A., Novosad, V., Otalora, J. A., Otani, Y., Papp, A., Pigeau, B., Pirro, P., Porod, W., Porrati, F., Qin, H., Rana, B., Reimann, T., Riente, F., Romero-Isart, O., Ross, A., Sadovnikov, A. V., Safin, A. R., Saitoh, E., Schmidt, G., Schultheiss, H., Schultheiss, K., Serga, A. A., Sharma, S., Shaw, J. M., Suess, D., Surzhenko, O., Szulc, K., Taniguchi, T., Urbánek, M., Usami, K., Ustinov, A. B., van der Sar, T., van Dijken, S., Vasyuchka, V. I., Verba, R., Kusminskiy, S. Viola, Wang, Q., Weides, M., Weiler, M., Wintz, S., Wolski, S. P., and Zhang, X.
Subjects: Physics - Applied Physics, Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter
Abstract: Magnonics is a field of science that addresses the physical properties of spin waves and utilizes them for data processing. Scalability down to atomic dimensions, operations in the GHz-to-THz frequency range, utilization of nonlinear and nonreciprocal phenomena, and compatibility with CMOS are just a few of many advantages offered by magnons. Although magnonics is still primarily positioned in the academic domain, the scientific and technological challenges of the field are being extensively investigated, and many proof-of-concept prototypes have already been realized in laboratories. This roadmap is a product of the collective work of many authors that covers versatile spin-wave computing approaches, conceptual building blocks, and underlying physical phenomena. In particular, the roadmap discusses the computation operations with Boolean digital data, unconventional approaches like neuromorphic computing, and the progress towards magnon-based quantum computing. The article is organized as a collection of sub-sections grouped into seven large thematic sections. Each sub-section is prepared by one or a group of authors and concludes with a brief description of the current challenges and the outlook of the further development of the research directions., Comment: 74 pages, 57 figures, 500 references
Published: 2021
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31. Scintillation yield from electronic and nuclear recoils in superfluid He4

Author: Biekert, A, Chang, C, Fink, CW, Garcia-Sciveres, M, Glazer, EC, Guo, W, Hertel, SA, Kravitz, S, Lin, J, Lisovenko, M, Mahapatra, R, McKinsey, DN, Nguyen, JS, Novosad, V, Page, W, Patel, PK, Penning, B, Pinckney, HD, Pyle, M, Romani, RK, Seilnacht, AS, Serafin, A, Smith, RJ, Sorensen, P, Suerfu, B, Suzuki, A, Velan, V, Wang, G, Watkins, SL, Yefremenko, VG, Yuan, L, and Zhang, J
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences
Abstract: Superfluid He4 is a promising target material for direct detection of light (
Published: 2022

32. Scintillation yield from electronic and nuclear recoils in superfluid $^4$He

Author: Collaboration, SPICE/HeRALD, Biekert, A., Chang, C., Fink, C. W., Garcia-Sciveres, M., Glazer, E. C., Guo, W., Hertel, S. A., Kravitz, S., Lin, J., Lisovenko, M., Mahapatra, R., McKinsey, D. N., Nguyen, J. S., Novosad, V., Page, W., Patel, P. K., Penning, B., Pinckney, H. D., Pyle, M., Romani, R. K., Seilnacht, A. S., Serafin, A., Smith, R. J., Sorensen, P., Suerfu, B., Suzuki, A., Velan, V., Wang, G., Watkins, S. L., Yefremenko, V. G., Yuan, L., and Zhang, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Superfluid $^4$He is a promising target material for direct detection of light ($<$ 1 GeV) dark matter. Possible signal channels available for readout in this medium include prompt photons, triplet excimers, and roton and phonon quasiparticles. The relative yield of these signals has implications for the sensitivity and discrimination power of a superfluid $^4$He dark matter detector. Using a 16~cm$^3$ volume of 1.75~K superfluid $^4$He read out by six immersed photomultiplier tubes, we measured the scintillation from electronic recoils ranging between 36.3 and 185 keV$_\mathrm{ee}$, yielding a mean signal size of $1.25^{+0.03}_{-0.03}$~phe/keV$_\mathrm{ee}$, and nuclear recoils from 53.2 to 1090 keV$_\mathrm{nr}$. We compare the results of our relative scintillation yield measurements to an existing semiempirical model based on helium-helium and electron-helium interaction cross sections. We also study the behavior of delayed scintillation components as a function of recoil type and energy, a further avenue for signal discrimination in superfluid $^4$He., Comment: 17 pages, 19 figures
Published: 2021
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33. The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

Author: Sobrin, J. A., Anderson, A. J., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Dutcher, D., Foster, A., Goeckner-Wald, N., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Rahlin, A., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderes, E., Archipley, M., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Benabed, K., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T. -L., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B., Sayre, J. T., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB provide a powerful dataset for constraining cosmology. Additionally, CMB surveys with arcminute-scale resolution are capable of detecting galaxy clusters, millimeter-wave bright galaxies, and a variety of transient phenomena. The SPT-3G instrument provides a significant improvement in mapping speed over its predecessors, SPT-SZ and SPTpol. The broadband optics design of the instrument achieves a 430 mm diameter image plane across observing bands of 95 GHz, 150 GHz, and 220 GHz, with 1.2 arcmin FWHM beam response at 150 GHz. In the receiver, this image plane is populated with 2690 dual-polarization, tri-chroic pixels (~16000 detectors) read out using a 68X digital frequency-domain multiplexing readout system. In 2018, SPT-3G began a multiyear survey of 1500 deg$^{2}$ of the southern sky. We summarize the unique optical, cryogenic, detector, and readout technologies employed in SPT-3G, and we report on the integrated performance of the instrument., Comment: 25 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJS
Published: 2021
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34. The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G

Author: Sobrin, JA, Anderson, AJ, Bender, AN, Benson, BA, Dutcher, D, Foster, A, Goeckner-Wald, N, Montgomery, J, Nadolski, A, Rahlin, A, Ade, PAR, Ahmed, Z, Anderes, E, Archipley, M, Austermann, JE, Avva, JS, Aylor, K, Balkenhol, L, Barry, PS, Thakur, R Basu, Benabed, K, Bianchini, F, Bleem, LE, Bouchet, FR, Bryant, L, Byrum, K, Carlstrom, JE, Carter, FW, Cecil, TW, Chang, CL, Chaubal, P, Chen, G, Cho, H-M, Chou, T-L, Cliche, J-F, Crawford, TM, Cukierman, A, Daley, C, de Haan, T, Denison, EV, Dibert, K, Ding, J, Dobbs, MA, Everett, W, Feng, C, Ferguson, KR, Fu, J, Galli, S, Gambrel, AE, Gardner, RW, Gualtieri, R, Guns, S, Gupta, N, Guyser, R, Halverson, NW, Harke-Hosemann, AH, Harrington, NL, Henning, JW, Hilton, GC, Hivon, E, Holder, GP, Holzapfel, WL, Hood, JC, Howe, D, Huang, N, Irwin, KD, Jeong, OB, Jonas, M, Jones, A, Khaire, TS, Knox, L, Kofman, AM, Korman, M, Kubik, DL, Kuhlmann, S, Kuo, C-L, Lee, AT, Leitch, EM, Lowitz, AE, Lu, C, Meyer, SS, Michalik, D, Millea, M, Natoli, T, Nguyen, H, Noble, GI, Novosad, V, Omori, Y, Padin, S, Pan, Z, Paschos, P, Pearson, J, Posada, CM, Prabhu, K, Quan, W, Reichardt, CL, Riebel, D, Riedel, B, Rouble, M, and Ruhl, JE
Subjects: Astronomical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences
Abstract: SPT-3G is the third survey receiver operating on the South Pole Telescope dedicated to high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Sensitive measurements of the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB provide a powerful data set for constraining cosmology. Additionally, CMB surveys with arcminute-scale resolution are capable of detecting galaxy clusters, millimeter-wave bright galaxies, and a variety of transient phenomena. The SPT-3G instrument provides a significant improvement in mapping speed over its predecessors, SPT-SZ and SPTpol. The broadband optics design of the instrument achieves a 430 mm diameter image plane across observing bands of 95, 150, and 220 GHz, with 1.2′ FWHM beam response at 150 GHz. In the receiver, this image plane is populated with 2690 dual-polarization, trichroic pixels ( 1/416,000 detectors) read out using a 68× digital frequency-domain multiplexing readout system. In 2018, SPT-3G began a multiyear survey of 1500 deg2 of the southern sky. We summarize the unique optical, cryogenic, detector, and readout technologies employed in SPT-3G, and we report on the integrated performance of the instrument.
Published: 2022

35. Performance and characterization of the SPT-3G digital frequency-domain multiplexed readout system using an improved noise and crosstalk model

Author: Montgomery, J., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderes, E., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Avva, J. S., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T. -L., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Elleflot, T., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Foster, A., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Goeckner-Wald, N., Groh, J. C., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The third generation South Pole Telescope camera (SPT-3G) improves upon its predecessor (SPTpol) by an order of magnitude increase in detectors on the focal plane. The technology used to read out and control these detectors, digital frequency-domain multiplexing (DfMUX), is conceptually the same as used for SPTpol, but extended to accommodate more detectors. A nearly 5x expansion in the readout operating bandwidth has enabled the use of this large focal plane, and SPT-3G performance meets the forecasting targets relevant to its science objectives. However, the electrical dynamics of the higher-bandwidth readout differ from predictions based on models of the SPTpol system due to the higher frequencies used, and parasitic impedances associated with new cryogenic electronic architecture. To address this, we present an updated derivation for electrical crosstalk in higher-bandwidth DfMUX systems, and identify two previously uncharacterized contributions to readout noise, which become dominant at high bias frequency. The updated crosstalk and noise models successfully describe the measured crosstalk and readout noise performance of SPT-3G. These results also suggest specific changes to warm electronics component values, wire-harness properties, and SQUID parameters, to improve the readout system for future experiments using DfMUX, such as the LiteBIRD space telescope., Comment: Accepted to the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Published: 2021
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36. Constraints on $\Lambda$CDM Extensions from the SPT-3G 2018 $EE$ and $TE$ Power Spectra

Author: Balkenhol, L., Dutcher, D., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderes, E., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Avva, J. S., Aylor, K., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T. -L., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Foster, A., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present constraints on extensions to the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model from measurements of the $E$-mode polarization auto-power spectrum and the temperature-$E$-mode cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) made using 2018 SPT-3G data. The extensions considered vary the primordial helium abundance, the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom, the sum of neutrino masses, the relativistic energy density and mass of a sterile neutrino, and the mean spatial curvature. We do not find clear evidence for any of these extensions, from either the SPT-3G 2018 dataset alone or in combination with baryon acoustic oscillation and \textit{Planck} data. None of these model extensions significantly relax the tension between Hubble-constant, $H_0$, constraints from the CMB and from distance-ladder measurements using Cepheids and supernovae. The addition of the SPT-3G 2018 data to \textit{Planck} reduces the square-root of the determinants of the parameter covariance matrices by factors of $1.3 - 2.0$ across these models, signaling a substantial reduction in the allowed parameter volume. We also explore CMB-based constraints on $H_0$ from combined SPT, \textit{Planck}, and ACT DR4 datasets. While individual experiments see some indications of different $H_0$ values between the $TT$, $TE$, and $EE$ spectra, the combined $H_0$ constraints are consistent between the three spectra. For the full combined datasets, we report $H_0 = 67.49 \pm 0.53\,\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}\,Mpc^{-1}}$, which is the tightest constraint on $H_0$ from CMB power spectra to date and in $4.1\,\sigma$ tension with the most precise distance-ladder-based measurement of $H_0$. The SPT-3G survey is planned to continue through at least 2023, with existing maps of combined 2019 and 2020 data already having $\sim3.5\times$ lower noise than the maps used in this analysis., Comment: Submitted to PRD; 19 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2021
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37. Detection of Galactic and Extragalactic Millimeter-Wavelength Transient Sources with SPT-3G

Author: Guns, S., Foster, A., Daley, C., Rahlin, A., Whitehorn, N., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderes, E., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Avva, J. S., Aylor, K., Balkenhol, L., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T. -L., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., de Haan, T., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Marrone, D. P., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., Phadke, K. A., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, M. R., and Zhang, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: High-angular-resolution cosmic microwave background experiments provide a unique opportunity to conduct a survey of time-variable sources at millimeter wavelengths, a population which has primarily been understood through follow-up measurements of detections in other bands. Here we report the first results of an astronomical transient survey with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) using the SPT-3G camera to observe 1500 square degrees of the southern sky. The observations took place from March to November 2020 in three bands centered at 95, 150, and 220 GHz. This survey yielded the detection of fifteen transient events from sources not previously detected by the SPT. The majority are associated with variable stars of different types, expanding the number of such detected flares by more than a factor of two. The stellar flares are unpolarized and bright, in some cases exceeding 1 Jy, and have durations from a few minutes to several hours. Another population of detected events last for 2--3 weeks and appear to be extragalactic in origin. Though data availability at other wavelengths is limited, we find evidence for concurrent optical activity for two of the stellar flares. Future data from SPT-3G and forthcoming instruments will provide real-time detection of millimeter-wave transients on timescales of minutes to months., Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures; accepted to ApJ 5/27
Published: 2021
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38. Optimal Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation with SPTpol Data

Author: Millea, M, Daley, CM, Chou, T-L, Anderes, E, Ade, PAR, Anderson, AJ, Austermann, JE, Avva, JS, Beall, JA, Bender, AN, Benson, BA, Bianchini, F, Bleem, LE, Carlstrom, JE, Chang, CL, Chaubal, P, Chiang, HC, Citron, R, Moran, C Corbett, Crawford, TM, Crites, AT, de Haan, T, Dobbs, MA, Everett, W, Gallicchio, J, George, EM, Goeckner-Wald, N, Guns, S, Gupta, N, Halverson, NW, Henning, JW, Hilton, GC, Holder, GP, Holzapfel, WL, Hrubes, JD, Huang, N, Hubmayr, J, Irwin, KD, Knox, L, Lee, AT, Li, D, Lowitz, A, McMahon, JJ, Meyer, SS, Mocanu, LM, Montgomery, J, Natoli, T, Nibarger, JP, Noble, G, Novosad, V, Omori, Y, Padin, S, Patil, S, Pryke, C, Reichardt, CL, Ruhl, JE, Saliwanchik, BR, Schaffer, KK, Sievers, C, Smecher, G, Stark, AA, Thorne, B, Tucker, C, Veach, T, Vieira, JD, Wang, G, Whitehorn, N, Wu, WLK, and Yefremenko, V
Subjects: Space Sciences, Particle and High Energy Physics, Astronomical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics, Space sciences
Abstract: We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using 100 deg2 of polarization observations from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. These data reach noise levels as low as 5.8 µK arcmin in polarization, which are low enough that the typically used quadratic estimator (QE) technique for analyzing CMB lensing is significantly suboptimal. Conversely, the Bayesian procedure extracts all lensing information from the data and is optimal at any noise level. We infer the amplitude of the gravitational lensing potential to be A f =0.949\,\pm \,0.122 using the Bayesian pipeline, consistent with our QE pipeline result, but with 17% smaller error bars. The Bayesian analysis also provides a simple way to account for systematic uncertainties, performing a similar job as frequentist "bias hardening"or linear bias correction, and reducing the systematic uncertainty on A f due to polarization calibration from almost half of the statistical error to effectively zero. Finally, we jointly constrain A f along with A L, the amplitude of lensing-like effects on the CMB power spectra, demonstrating that the Bayesian method can be used to easily infer parameters both from an optimal lensing reconstruction and from the delensed CMB, while exactly accounting for the correlation between the two. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the Bayesian approach on real data, and pave the way for future analysis of deep CMB polarization measurements with SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4, where improvements relative to the QE can reach 1.5 times tighter constraints on A f and seven times lower effective lensing reconstruction noise.
Published: 2021

39. Quantum engineering with hybrid magnonics systems and materials

Author: Awschalom, D. D., Du, C. H. R., He, R., Heremans, F. J., Hoffmann, A., Hou, J. T., Kurebayashi, H., Li, Y., Liu, L., Novosad, V., Sklenar, J., Sullivan, S. E., Sun, D., Tang, H., Tiberkevich, V., Trevillian, C., Tsen, A. W., Weiss, L. R., Zhang, W., Zhang, X., Zhao, L., and Zollitsch, C. W.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Quantum Physics
Abstract: Quantum technology has made tremendous strides over the past two decades with remarkable advances in materials engineering, circuit design and dynamic operation. In particular, the integration of different quantum modules has benefited from hybrid quantum systems, which provide an important pathway for harnessing the different natural advantages of complementary quantum systems and for engineering new functionalities. This review focuses on the current frontiers with respect to utilizing magnetic excitatons or magnons for novel quantum functionality. Magnons are the fundamental excitations of magnetically ordered solid-state materials and provide great tunability and flexibility for interacting with various quantum modules for integration in diverse quantum systems. The concomitant rich variety of physics and material selections enable exploration of novel quantum phenomena in materials science and engineering. In addition, the relative ease of generating strong coupling and forming hybrid dynamic systems with other excitations makes hybrid magnonics a unique platform for quantum engineering. We start our discussion with circuit-based hybrid magnonic systems, which are coupled with microwave photons and acoustic phonons. Subsequently, we are focusing on the recent progress of magnon-magnon coupling within confined magnetic systems. Next we highlight new opportunities for understanding the interactions between magnons and nitrogen-vacancy centers for quantum sensing and implementing quantum interconnects. Lastly, we focus on the spin excitations and magnon spectra of novel quantum materials investigated with advanced optical characterization., Comment: 36 pages, 16 figures
Published: 2021

40. Measurements of the E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation of the CMB from SPT-3G 2018 Data

Author: Dutcher, D., Balkenhol, L., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderes, E., Anderson, A. J., Archipley, M., Avva, J. S., Aylor, K., Barry, P. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Benabed, K., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Bouchet, F. R., Bryant, L., Byrum, K., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chen, G., Cho, H. -M., Chou, T. -L., Cliche, J. -F., Crawford, T. M., Cukierman, A., Daley, C., de Haan, T., Denison, E. V., Dibert, K., Ding, J., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Feng, C., Ferguson, K. R., Foster, A., Fu, J., Galli, S., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gualtieri, R., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Guyser, R., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hood, J. C., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O. B., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Khaire, T. S., Knox, L., Kofman, A. M., Korman, M., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Lowitz, A. E., Lu, C., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Millea, M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., Posada, C. M., Prabhu, K., Quan, W., Raghunathan, S., Rahlin, A., Reichardt, C. L., Riebel, D., Riedel, B., Rouble, M., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schiappucci, E., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Sobrin, J. A., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Umilta, C., Vale, L. R., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present measurements of the $E$-mode ($EE$) polarization power spectrum and temperature-$E$-mode ($TE$) cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background using data collected by SPT-3G, the latest instrument installed on the South Pole Telescope. This analysis uses observations of a 1500 deg$^2$ region at 95, 150, and 220 GHz taken over a four month period in 2018. We report binned values of the $EE$ and $TE$ power spectra over the angular multipole range $300 \le \ell < 3000$, using the multifrequency data to construct six semi-independent estimates of each power spectrum and their minimum-variance combination. These measurements improve upon the previous results of SPTpol across the multipole ranges $300 \le \ell \le 1400$ for $EE$ and $300 \le \ell \le 1700$ for $TE$, resulting in constraints on cosmological parameters comparable to those from other current leading ground-based experiments. We find that the SPT-3G dataset is well-fit by a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model with parameter constraints consistent with those from Planck and SPTpol data. From SPT-3G data alone, we find $H_0 = 68.8 \pm 1.5 \mathrm{km\,s^{-1}\,Mpc^{-1}}$ and $\sigma_8 = 0.789 \pm 0.016$, with a gravitational lensing amplitude consistent with the $\Lambda$CDM prediction ($A_L = 0.98 \pm 0.12$). We combine the SPT-3G and the Planck datasets and obtain joint constraints on the $\Lambda$CDM model. The volume of the 68% confidence region in six-dimensional $\Lambda$CDM parameter space is reduced by a factor of 1.5 compared to Planck-only constraints, with only slight shifts in central values. We note that the results presented here are obtained from data collected during just half of a typical observing season with only part of the focal plane operable, and that the active detector count has since nearly doubled for observations made with SPT-3G after 2018.
Published: 2021
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41. Optimal CMB Lensing Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation with SPTpol Data

Author: Millea, M., Daley, C. M., Chou, T-L., Anderes, E., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Goeckner-Wald, N., Guns, S., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Thorne, B., Tucker, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian parameter inference and optimal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using 100 deg$^2$ of polarization observations from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. These data reach noise levels as low as 5.8 $\mu$K-arcmin in polarization, which are low enough that the typically used quadratic estimator (QE) technique for analyzing CMB lensing is significantly sub-optimal. Conversely, the Bayesian procedure extracts all lensing information from the data and is optimal at any noise level. We infer the amplitude of the gravitational lensing potential to be $A_\phi\,{=}\,0.949\,{\pm}\,0.122$ using the Bayesian pipeline, consistent with our QE pipeline result, but with 17\% smaller error bars. The Bayesian analysis also provides a simple way to account for systematic uncertainties, performing a similar job as frequentist "bias hardening," and reducing the systematic uncertainty on $A_\phi$ due to polarization calibration from almost half of the statistical error to effectively zero. Finally, we jointly constrain $A_\phi$ along with $A_{\rm L}$, the amplitude of lensing-like effects on the CMB power spectra, demonstrating that the Bayesian method can be used to easily infer parameters both from an optimal lensing reconstruction and from the delensed CMB, while exactly accounting for the correlation between the two. These results demonstrate the feasibility of the Bayesian approach on real data, and pave the way for future analysis of deep CMB polarization measurements with SPT-3G, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4, where improvements relative to the QE can reach 1.5 times tighter constraints on $A_\phi$ and 7 times lower effective lensing reconstruction noise., Comment: 27 pages, 14 figures, accompanying software package available at https://cosmicmar.com/CMBLensing.jl
Published: 2020
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42. Constraints on ΛCDM extensions from the SPT-3G 2018 EE and TE power spectra

Author: Balkenhol, L, Dutcher, D, Ade, PAR, Ahmed, Z, Anderes, E, Anderson, AJ, Archipley, M, Avva, JS, Aylor, K, Barry, PS, Thakur, R Basu, Benabed, K, Bender, AN, Benson, BA, Bianchini, F, Bleem, LE, Bouchet, FR, Bryant, L, Byrum, K, Carlstrom, JE, Carter, FW, Cecil, TW, Chang, CL, Chaubal, P, Chen, G, Cho, H-M, Chou, T-L, Cliche, J-F, Crawford, TM, Cukierman, A, Daley, C, de Haan, T, Denison, EV, Dibert, K, Ding, J, Dobbs, MA, Everett, W, Feng, C, Ferguson, KR, Foster, A, Fu, J, Galli, S, Gambrel, AE, Gardner, RW, Goeckner-Wald, N, Gualtieri, R, Guns, S, Gupta, N, Guyser, R, Halverson, NW, Harke-Hosemann, AH, Harrington, NL, Henning, JW, Hilton, GC, Hivon, E, Holder, GP, Holzapfel, WL, Hood, JC, Howe, D, Huang, N, Irwin, KD, Jeong, OB, Jonas, M, Jones, A, Khaire, TS, Knox, L, Kofman, AM, Korman, M, Kubik, DL, Kuhlmann, S, Kuo, C-L, Lee, AT, Leitch, EM, Lowitz, AE, Lu, C, Meyer, SS, Michalik, D, Millea, M, Montgomery, J, Nadolski, A, Natoli, T, Nguyen, H, Noble, GI, Novosad, V, Omori, Y, Padin, S, Pan, Z, Paschos, P, Pearson, J, Posada, CM, Prabhu, K, Quan, W, Rahlin, A, Reichardt, CL, Riebel, D, Riedel, B, Rouble, M, Ruhl, JE, Sayre, JT, and Schiappucci, E
Subjects: Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences
Abstract: We present constraints on extensions to the ΛCDM cosmological model from measurements of the E-mode polarization autopower spectrum and the temperature-E-mode cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) made using 2018 SPT-3G data. The extensions considered vary the primordial helium abundance, the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom, the sum of neutrino masses, the relativistic energy density and mass of a sterile neutrino, and the mean spatial curvature. We do not find clear evidence for any of these extensions, from either the SPT-3G 2018 dataset alone or in combination with baryon acoustic oscillation and Planck data. None of these model extensions significantly relax the tension between Hubble-constant, H0, constraints from the CMB and from distance-ladder measurements using Cepheids and supernovae. The addition of the SPT-3G 2018 data to Planck reduces the square-root of the determinants of the parameter covariance matrices by factors of 1.3-2.0 across these models, signaling a substantial reduction in the allowed parameter volume. We also explore CMB-based constraints on H0 from combined SPT, Planck, and ACT DR4 datasets. While individual experiments see some indications of different H0 values between the TT, TE, and EE spectra, the combined H0 constraints are consistent between the three spectra. For the full combined datasets, we report H0=67.49±0.53 km s-1 Mpc-1, which is the tightest constraint on H0 from CMB power spectra to date and in 4.1σ tension with the most precise distance-ladder-based measurement of H0. The SPT-3G survey is planned to continue through at least 2023, with existing maps of combined 2019 and 2020 data already having ∼3.5×lower noise than the maps used in this analysis.
Published: 2021

43. A CUPID Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometer tested in the CROSS underground facility

Author: The CUPID Interest Group, Armatol, A., Armengaud, E., Armstrong, W., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Bandac, I. C., Barabash, A. S., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Bourgeois, Ch., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Calvo-Mozota, J. M., Camilleri, J., Candela, A., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chapellier, M., Charrier, A., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Collamati, F., Copello, S., Cova, F., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., de Combarieu, M., De Deo, M., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Dompe, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Fasoli, M., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gras, P., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R. G., Ianni, A., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mauri, B., Mayer, D., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Misiak, D., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Navick, X. -F., Nikkel, J., Nipoti, R., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O'Donnell, T., Olivier, G., Olivieri, E., Oriol, C., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polakovic, T., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Ressa, A., Reynet, D., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tellier, O., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Vedda, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Yumatov, V. I., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A. S., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: A scintillating bolometer based on a large cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystal (45 mm side) and a Ge wafer (scintillation detector) has been operated in the CROSS cryogenic facility at the Canfranc underground laboratory in Spain. The dual-readout detector is a prototype of the technology that will be used in the next-generation $0\nu2\beta$ experiment CUPID. The measurements were performed at 18 and 12 mK temperature in a pulse tube dilution refrigerator. This setup utilizes the same technology as the CUORE cryostat that will host CUPID and so represents an accurate estimation of the expected performance. The Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ bolometer shows a high energy resolution of 6 keV FWHM at the 2615 keV $\gamma$ line. The detection of scintillation light for each event triggered by the Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ bolometer allowed for a full separation ($\sim$8$\sigma$) between $\gamma$($\beta$) and $\alpha$ events above 2 MeV. The Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystal also shows a high internal radiopurity with $^{228}$Th and $^{226}$Ra activities of less than 3 and 8 $\mu$Bq/kg, respectively. Taking also into account the advantage of a more compact and massive detector array, which can be made of cubic-shaped crystals (compared to the cylindrical ones), this test demonstrates the great potential of cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for high-sensitivity searches for the $^{100}$Mo $0\nu2\beta$ decay in CROSS and CUPID projects., Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Published: 2020
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44. Characterization of cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals for the CUPID experiment

Author: Armatol, A., Armengaud, E., Armstrong, W., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Barabash, A., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergè, L., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camilleri, J., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chapellier, M., Charrier, A., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Collamati, F., Copello, S., Cova, F., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., de Combarieu, M., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Dompé, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Fasoli, M., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gras, P., Gros, M., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R. G., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mauri, B., Mayer, D., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Misiak, D., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Navick, X. F., Nikkel, J., Nipoti, R., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O'Donnell, T., Olivieri, E., Oriol, C., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polakovic, T., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Ressa, A., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tellier, O., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Vedda, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Yumatov, V., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The CUPID Collaboration is designing a tonne-scale, background-free detector to search for double beta decay with sufficient sensitivity to fully explore the parameter space corresponding to the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy scenario. One of the CUPID demonstrators, CUPID-Mo, has proved the potential of enriched Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals as suitable detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay search. In this work, we characterised cubic crystals that, compared to the cylindrical crystals used by CUPID-Mo, are more appealing for the construction of tightly packed arrays. We measured an average energy resolution of (6.7$\pm$0.6) keV FWHM in the region of interest, approaching the CUPID target of 5 keV FWHM. We assessed the identification of $\alpha$ particles with and without a reflecting foil that enhances the scintillation light collection efficiency, proving that the baseline design of CUPID already ensures a complete suppression of this $\alpha$-induced background contribution. We also used the collected data to validate a Monte Carlo simulation modelling the light collection efficiency, which will enable further optimisations of the detector.
Published: 2020

45. Novel technique for the study of pile-up events in cryogenic bolometers

Author: Armatol, A., Armengaud, E., Armstrong, W., Augier, C., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Barabash, A., Bari, G., Barresi, A., Baudin, D., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Biassoni, M., Billard, J., Boldrini, V., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camilleri, J., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chang, C., Chapellier, M., Charrier, A., Chiesa, D., Clemenza, M., Colantoni, I., Collamati, F., Copello, S., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R. J., Cruciani, A., D'Addabbo, A., D'Imperio, G., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., de Combarieu, M., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dell'Oro, S., Di Domizio, S., Dompè, V., Drobizhev, A., Dumoulin, L., Fantini, G., Faverzani, M., Ferri, E., Ferri, F., Ferroni, F., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Formaggio, J., Franceschi, A., Fu, C., Fu, S., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gras, P., Gros, M., Gutierrez, T. D., Han, K., Hansen, E. V., Heeger, K. M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R. G., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Karapetrov, G., Keppel, G., Khalife, H., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S., Liu, Y., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Madhukuttan, M., Mancarella, F., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R. H., Mauri, B., Mayer, D., Mei, Y., Milana, S., Misiak, D., Napolitano, T., Nastasi, M., Navick, X. F., Nikkel, J., Nipoti, R., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novosad, V., Nutini, I., O'Donnell, T., Olivieri, E., Oriol, C., Ouellet, J. L., Pagan, S., Pagliarone, C., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polakovic, T., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Puiu, A., Ressa, A., Rizzoli, R., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J., Schmidt, B., Sharma, V., Shlegel, V., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Speller, D., Surukuchi, P. T., Taffarello, L., Tellier, O., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Tsymbaliuk, A., Velazquez, M., Vetter, K. J., Wagaarachchi, S. L., Wang, G., Wang, L., Welliver, B., Wilson, J., Wilson, K., Winslow, L. A., Xue, M., Yan, L., Yang, J., Yefremenko, V., Yumatov, V., Zarytskyy, M. M., Zhang, J., Zolotarova, A., and Zucchelli, S.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Precise characterization of detector time resolution is of crucial importance for next-generation cryogenic-bolometer experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, such as CUPID, in order to reject background due to pile-up of two-neutrino double-beta decay events. In this paper, we describe a technique developed to study the pile-up rejection capability of cryogenic bolometers. Our approach, which consists of producing controlled pile-up events with a programmable waveform generator, has the benefit that we can reliably and reproducibly control the time separation and relative energy of the individual components of the generated pile-up events. The resulting data allow us to optimize and benchmark analysis strategies to discriminate between individual and pile-up pulses. We describe a test of this technique performed with a small array of detectors at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in Italy; we obtain a 90% rejection efficiency against pulser-generated pile-up events with rise time of ~15ms down to time separation between the individual events of about 2ms.
Published: 2020
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46. A Demonstration of Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves with Delensing

Author: BICEP/Keck, Collaborations, SPTpol, Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. Basu, Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bischoff, C. A., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J. J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cheshire IV, J. R., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T-L., Citron, R., Connors, J., Moran, C. Corbett, Cornelison, J., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A., de Haan, T., Dierickx, M., Dobbs, M. A., Duband, L., Everett, W., Fatigoni, S., Filippini, J. P., Fliescher, S., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Germaine, T. St., Goeckner-Wald, N., Goldfinger, D. C., Grayson, J., Gupta, N., Hall, G., Halpern, M., Halverson, N. W., Harrison, S., Henderson, S., Henning, J. W., Hildebrandt, S. R., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Hui, H., Irwin, K. D., Kang, J., Karkare, K. S., Karpel, E., Kefeli, S., Kernasovskiy, S. A., Knox, L., Kovac, J. M., Kuo, C. L., Lau, K., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Megerian, K. G., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Moncelsi, L., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Namikawa, T., Natoli, T., Netterfield, C. B., Nguyen, H. T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., O'Brient, R., Ogburn IV, R. W., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Palladino, S., Patil, S., Prouve, T., Pryke, C., Racine, B., Reichardt, C. L., Reintsema, C. D., Richter, S., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Schillaci, A., Schmitt, B. L., Schwarz, R., Sheehy, C. D., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Soliman, A., Stark, A. A., Steinbach, B., Sudiwala, R. V., Teply, G. P., Thompson, K. L., Tolan, J. E., Tucker, C., Turner, A. D., Umiltà, C., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Vieregg, A. G., Wandui, A., Wang, G., Weber, A. C., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, D. V., Willmert, J., Wong, C. L., Wu, W. L. K., Yang, H., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., Young, E., Yu, C., Zeng, L., and Zhang, C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r$, derived from measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization $B$-modes with "delensing," whereby the uncertainty on $r$ contributed by the sample variance of the gravitational lensing $B$-modes is reduced by cross-correlating against a lensing $B$-mode template. This template is constructed by combining an estimate of the polarized CMB with a tracer of the projected large-scale structure. The large-scale-structure tracer used is a map of the cosmic infrared background derived from Planck satellite data, while the polarized CMB map comes from a combination of South Pole Telescope, BICEP/Keck, and Planck data. We expand the BICEP/Keck likelihood analysis framework to accept a lensing template and apply it to the BICEP/Keck data set collected through 2014 using the same parametric foreground modelling as in the previous analysis. From simulations, we find that the uncertainty on $r$ is reduced by $\sim10\%$, from $\sigma(r)$= 0.024 to 0.022, which can be compared with a $\sim26\%$ reduction obtained when using a perfect lensing template. Applying the technique to the real data, the constraint on $r$ is improved from $r_{0.05} < 0.090$ to $r_{0.05} < 0.082$ (95\% C.L.). This is the first demonstration of improvement in an $r$ constraint through delensing., Comment: 23 pages, 11 figures; match published version
Published: 2020
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47. Controlling $T_c$ of Iridium Films Using the Proximity Effect

Author: Hennings-Yeomans, R., Chang, C. L., Ding, J., Drobizhev, A., Fujikawa, B. K., Han, S., Karapetrov, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Novosad, V., O'Donnell, T., Ouellet, J. L., Pearson, J., Polakovic, T., Reggio, D., Schmidt, B., Sheff, B., Singh, V., Smith, R. J., Wang, G., Welliver, B., Yefremenko, V. G., and Zhang, J.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: A superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) with low-$T_c$ is essential in a high resolution calorimetric detection. With a motivation of developing sensitive calorimeters for applications in cryogenic neutrinoless double beta decay searches, we have been investigating methods to reduce the $T_c$ of an Ir film down to 20 mK. Utilizing the proximity effect between a superconductor and a normal metal, we found two room temperature fabrication recipes of making Ir-based low-$T_c$ films. In the first approach, an Ir film sandwiched between two Au films, a Au/Ir/Au trilayer, has a tunable $T_c$ in the range of 20-100 mK depending on the relative thicknesses. In the second approach, a paramagnetic Pt thin film is used to create Ir/Pt bilayer with a tunable $T_c$ in the same range. We present detailed study of fabrication and characterization of Ir-based low-$T_c$ films, and compare the experimental results to theoretical models. We show that Ir-based films with predictable and reproducible critical temperature can be consistently fabricated for use in large scale detector applications., Comment: 5 figures, accepted in the Journal of Applied Physics
Published: 2020
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48. Searching for Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Polarization Data from SPTpol

Author: Bianchini, F., Wu, W. L. K., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Balkenhol, L., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Manzotti, A., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Patil, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Schaffer, K. K., Sievers, C., Simard, G., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Story, K. T., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., and Yefremenko, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg$^2$ of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map of cosmic polarization rotation anisotropies using higher-order correlations between the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) $E$ and $B$ fields. We then measure the angular power spectrum of this map, which is found to be consistent with zero. The non-detection is translated into an upper limit on the amplitude of the scale-invariant cosmic rotation power spectrum, $L(L+1)C_L^{\alpha\alpha}/2\pi < 0.10 \times 10^{-4}$ rad$^2$ (0.033 deg$^2$, 95% C.L.). This upper limit can be used to place constraints on the strength of primordial magnetic fields, $B_{1 \rm Mpc} < 17 {\rm nG} $ (95% C.L.), and on the coupling constant of the Chern-Simons electromagnetic term $g_{a\gamma} < 4.0 \times 10^{-2}/H_I $ (95% C.L.), where $H_I$ is the inflationary Hubble scale. For the first time, we also cross-correlate the CMB temperature fluctuations with the reconstructed rotation angle map, a signal expected to be non-vanishing in certain theoretical scenarios, and find no detectable signal. We perform a suite of systematics and consistency checks and find no evidence for contamination., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures - new subsection on non-Gaussian foregrounds, conclusions unchanged - updated to match published version on PRD
Published: 2020
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49. An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys

Author: Reichardt, C. L., Patil, S., Ade, P. A. R., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Baxter, E., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Chaubal, P., Chiang, H. C., Chou, T. L., Citron, R., Moran, C. Corbett, Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W., Gallicchio, J., George, E. M., Gilbert, A., Gupta, N., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N., Henning, J. W., Hilton, G. C., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Huang, N., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. D., Knox, L., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Lowitz, A., Luong-Van, D., McMahon, J. J., Mehl, J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Montgomery, J., Nadolski, A., Natoli, T., Nibarger, J. P., Noble, G., Novosad, V., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Ruhl, J. E., Saliwanchik, B. R., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Sievers, C., Smecher, G., Spieler, H. G., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Veach, T., Vieira, J. D., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Williamson, R., Wu, W. L. K., and Yefremenko, V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report new measurements of millimeter-wave power spectra in the angular multipole range $2000 \le \ell \le 11,000$ (angular scales $5^\prime \gtrsim \theta \gtrsim 1^\prime$). By adding 95 and 150\,GHz data from the low-noise 500 deg$^2$ SPTpol survey to the SPT-SZ three-frequency 2540 deg$^2$ survey, we substantially reduce the uncertainties in these bands. These power spectra include contributions from the primary cosmic microwave background, cosmic infrared background, radio galaxies, and thermal and kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects. The data favor a thermal SZ (tSZ) power at 143\,GHz of $D^{\rm tSZ}_{3000} = 3.42 \pm 0.54~ \mu {\rm K}^2$ and a kinematic SZ (kSZ) power of $D^{\rm kSZ}_{3000} = 3.0 \pm 1.0~ \mu {\rm K}^2$. This is the first measurement of kSZ power at $\ge 3\,\sigma$. We study the implications of the measured kSZ power for the epoch of reionization, finding the duration of reionization to be $\Delta z_{re} = 1.0^{+1.6}_{-0.7}$ ($\Delta z_{re}< 4.1$ at 95% confidence), when combined with our previously published tSZ bispectrum measurement., Comment: Submitted to ApJ, 16 pages. (revised portions of the introduction and description of bandpower estimation)
Published: 2020
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50. Broadband, millimeter-wave antireflection coatings for large-format, cryogenic aluminum oxide optics

Author: Nadolski, A., Vieira, J. D., Sobrin, J. A., Kofman, A. M., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Avva, J. S., Thakur, R. Basu, Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bryant, L., Carlstrom, J. E., Carter, F. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Cheshire IV, J. R., Chesmore, G. E., Cliche, J. F., Cukierman, A., de Haan, T., Dierickx, M., Ding, J., Dutcher, D., Everett, W., Farwick, J., Ferguson, K. R., Florez, L., Foster, A., Fu, J., Gallicchio, J., Gambrel, A. E., Gardner, R. W., Groh, J. C., Guns, S., Guyser, R., Halverson, N. W., Harke-Hosemann, A. H., Harrington, N. L., Harris, R. J., Henning, J. W., Holzapfel, W. L., Howe, D., Huang, N., Irwin, K. D., Jeong, O., Jonas, M., Jones, A., Korman, M., Kovac, J., Kubik, D. L., Kuhlmann, S., Kuo, C. -L., Lee, A. T., Lowitz, A. E., McMahon, J., Meier, J., Meyer, S. S., Michalik, D., Montgomery, J., Natoli, T., Nguyen, H., Noble, G. I., Novosad, V., Padin, S., Pan, Z., Paschos, P., Pearson, J., sada, C. M. Po, Quan, W., Rahlin, A., Riebel, D., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Shirokoff, E., Smecher, G., Stark, A. A., Stephen, J., Story, K. T., Suzuki, A., Tandoi, C., Thompson, K. L., Tucker, C., Vanderlinde, K., Wang, G., Whitehorn, N., Yefremenko, V., Yoon, K. W., and Young, M. R.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We present two prescriptions for broadband (~77 - 252 GHz), millimeter-wave antireflection coatings for cryogenic, sintered polycrystalline aluminum oxide optics: one for large-format (700 mm diameter) planar and plano-convex elements, the other for densely packed arrays of quasi-optical elements, in our case 5 mm diameter half-spheres (called "lenslets"). The coatings comprise three layers of commercially-available, polytetrafluoroethylene-based, dielectric sheet material. The lenslet coating is molded to fit the 150 mm diameter arrays directly while the large-diameter lenses are coated using a tiled approach. We review the fabrication processes for both prescriptions then discuss laboratory measurements of their transmittance and reflectance. In addition, we present the inferred refractive indices and loss tangents for the coating materials and the aluminum oxide substrate. We find that at 150 GHz and 300 K the large-format coating sample achieves (97 +/- 2)% transmittance and the lenslet coating sample achieves (94 +/- 3)% transmittance., Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures; submitted 05 Dec 2019, accepted 26 Feb 2020
Published: 2019
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