The TES-based Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU: A Large Area Silicon Microcalorimeter for Background Particles Detection - INSPIRE

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The TES-based Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU: A Large Area Silicon Microcalorimeter for Background Particles Detection

Jan 19, 2024

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J.Low Temp.Phys. 214 (2024) 3-4, 164-172

Published: Jan 25, 2024

e-Print:

2401.10827 [astro-ph.IM]

DOI:

10.1007/s10909-023-03034-5

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Abstract: (Springer)

We are developing the Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector (CryoAC) of the ATHENA X-IFU spectrometer. It is a TES-based particle detector aimed to reduce the background of the instrument. Here, we present the result obtained with the last CryoAC single-pixel prototype. It is based on a 1 cm

^{2}

silicon absorber sensed by a single 2 mm × 1 mm Ir/Au TES, featuring an on-chip heater for calibration and diagnostic purposes. We have illuminated the sample with

^{55}

Fe (6 keV line) and

^{241}

Am (60 keV line) radioactive sources, thus studying the detector response and the heater calibration accuracy at low energy. Furthermore, we have operated the sample in combination with a past-generation CryoAC prototype. Here, by analyzing the coincident detections between the two detectors, we have been able to characterize the background spectrum of the laboratory environment and disentangle the primary (i.e. cosmic muons) and secondaries (mostly secondary photons and electrons) signatures in the spectral shape.

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Accepted for publication in the Journal of Low Temperature Physics for LTD-20 special issue

ATHENA X-IFU
CryoAC
Anticoincidence
Cryogenics
Background
background: spectrum
photon: secondary
energy: low
calibration
silicon

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