Insubria-Florence Development of a Low Temperature Capacitive Bolometer for the Detection of Rare Events
Abstract
DERBY (DEvelopment of Reactive BolometrY) is a Research and Development project, in the framework of the INFN programs for the study of innovative detectors, aiming at the realization of very low-temperature capacitive bolometers. A possible application is in the detection of rare events such as double beta decay. We present here preliminary measurements on commercial SMD (Surface Mount Device) capacitors. The results show that it is rather easy to get samples with the adequate temperature sensitivity, whereas the question is still open as to whether these devices, intrinsically slow, can have a sufficiently fast time response.
- Publication:
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Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications
- Pub Date:
- July 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812702708_0030
- Bibcode:
- 2004apsp.conf..196P