2014/06/26 by B. Shank, J. J. Yen, Shank, B. +21
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational physics #Computer science #Condensed matter physics #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Detector #Electrical engineering #Energy (signal processing) #Engineering #Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution #FOS: Physical sciences #Filter (signal processing) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Materials science #Mathematics #Nonlinear system #Optics #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Saturation (graph theory) #Superconducting and THz Device Technology #Superconductivity #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #Telecommunications #Thermal #Transition edge sensor #cond-mat.supr-con #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1406.7030
companion paper to J. J. Yen's "Measurement Of Quasiparticle Transport In Aluminum Films Using Tungsten Transition-Edge Sensors"
arxiv created 2014/06/26 · openalex publication_date 2014/06/26 · arxiv updated 2014/06/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We present a detailed thermal and electrical model of superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs) connected to quasiparticle (qp) traps, such as the W TESs connected to Al qp traps used for CDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) Ge and Si detectors. We show that this improved model, together with a straightforward time-domain optimal filter, can be used to analyze pulses well into the nonlinear saturation region and reconstruct absorbed energies with optimal energy resolution.