Beamline test of a transition-edge-sensor spectrometer in preparation for kaonic-atom measurements

Autor: Galen C. O'Neil, Joseph W. Fowler, William B. Doriese, Joel N. Ullom, K. Itahashi, Yue Ma, F. Parnefjord Gustafsson, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, M. Sato, Mohamad Bazzi, Toshihiko Hiraiwa, Michiko Sekimoto, H. Outa, M. Iliescu, Ken Suzuki, Ryugo S. Hayano, Hiroyuki Noumi, C. Guaraldo, H. Tatsuno, Gene C. Hilton, D. S. Swetz, Douglas A. Bennett, Carolina Berucci, D. R. Schmidt, Johann Zmeskal, Carl D. Reintsema, Shigeru Ishimoto, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Masami Iio, Shinya Yamada, Makoto Tokuda, Yuto Ichinohe, D. Sirghi, R. Hayakawa, Jens Uhlig, Shinji Okada, T. Yamazaki, Y. Sada, James P. Hays-Wehle, D. Bosnar, Florin Sirghi, Catalina Curceanu, Hirofumi Noda, Hexi Shi, K. Piscicchia, M. Iwasaki, Kiyoshi Tanida, Alessandro Scordo, T. Hashimoto, Fuminori Sakuma, Hiroaki Ohnishi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 27(No. 4)
Popis: —We are developing a new technique to apply transition-edge sensors (TESs) to X-ray spectroscopy of exotic atoms, especially of kaonic atoms. To demonstrate the feasibility of this pioneering project, performance of a TES-based X-ray detector was evaluated in pion- and kaon-beam environments at particle accelerators. We successfully observed X- rays from pionic-carbon atoms with a resolution as good as 7 eV FWHM at 6 keV. Also at a kaon beamline, we confirmed that the TES spectrometer will be able to achieve our resolution goal, 6 eV, in our first scientific campaign to measure X-rays from kaonic- helium atoms.
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