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Detecting the primordial 'B-mode' polarization of the cosmic microwave background is one of the major challenges of modern observational cosmology. Microwave telescopes need sensitive cryogenic bolometers with an overall equivalent noise temperature in the nK range. In this paper, we present the development status of large area (about 1 cm2)...

In the last years organic scintillators have been largely investigated in order to achieve high light yield together with good time response. Pure organic compound with high quality crystalline structure can achieve both this goals. Among a large type of organic compound, para-terphenyl (C18H14) have proven to have practical applications as...

During the 2024-2025 shut-down, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be upgraded to reach an instantaneous luminosity up to 7×1034cm-2s-1. This upgrade of the collider is called High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). ATLAS and CMS detectors will be upgraded to meet the new challenges of HL-LHC: an average of 200 pile-up events in every bunch crossing...

The HOLMES experiment will provide an important step forward in direct neutrino mass measurements with a calorimetric approach as an alternative to spectrometry. HOLMES will perform a calorimetric measurement of the energy released in the decay of163Ho and will deploy a large array of transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters with implanted163Ho...

In this paper new version of the6Li-based neutron spectrometer for high flux environments is described. The new spectrometer was built with commercial single crystal Chemical Vapour Deposition diamonds of electronic grade. These crystals feature better charge collection as well as higher radiation hardness. New metal contacts approaching ohmic...

HOLMES is an experiment to directly measure the neutrino mass with a calorimetric approach. The calorimetric technique eliminates several systematic uncertainties usually present in spectrometers where the external source and decays to excited states affect the measurement. 163Ho is chosen as source for its very low Q value (2.8 keV), the...

Large area spiderweb bolometers of 8 mm diameter and a mesh size of 250 Î1/4m are fabricated in order to couple with approximately the first 20 modes of a multimode EM cavity at about 140 GHz. The sensor is a Ti/Au/Ti 3 layer TES with Tc tuned in the 330-380 mK and 2 mK transition width. We describe the detector design and the fabrication...

This paper presents the first pixel detector realized using the BCD8 technology of STMicroelectronics. The BCD8 is a 160 nm process with bipolar, CMOS and DMOS devices; mainly targeted for an automotive application. The silicon particle detector is realized as a pixel sensor diode with a dimension of 250 × 50 μm2. To support the signal...

The HOLMES experiment aims to directly measure the [Formula presented] mass with a calorimetric approach. The choice of 163 Ho isotope as source is driven by the very low decay Q-value ([Formula presented] 2.8 keV), which allows for high sensitivity with low activities (O(10[Formula presented])Hz/detector), thus reducing the pile-up...

We present the design, implementation and first tests of the superconducting LC filters for the frequency domain readout of spiderweb TES bolometers of the SWIPE experiment on the balloon-borne LSPE mission which aims at measuring the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at large angular scales to find the imprint of inflation...

We present critical temperature measurements of titanium thin films annealed in an argon atmosphere at various temperatures. We are able to depress the TC by up to 200 mK from an initial TC of 540 mK by increasing the temperature at which the films are post-annealed from 80 to 275 ∘C. We find an anti-correlation trend between the annealing...

This paper describes the production and chemical separation of the163Ho isotope that will be used in several nuclear physics experiments aiming at measuring the neutrino mass as well as the neutron cross section of the163Ho isotope. For this purpose, several batches of enriched162Er have been irradiated at the Institut Laue-Langevin high flux...

Measuring the neutrino mass is one of the most compelling issues in particle physics. HOLMES is an experiment for a direct measurement of the neutrino mass. HOLMES will perform a precise measurement of the end point of the electron capture decay spectrum of (Formula presented.) in order to extract information on the neutrino mass with a...

HOLMES is an experiment aimed at directly measuring the neutrino mass through the calorimetric measurement of the 163 Ho electron capture decay. The final goal of the project consists in providing a sensitivity on the neutrino mass below 2 eV; in addition, it will establish the potential of this approach to achieve a sub-eV sensitivity. The...

The determination of the neutrino mass is an open issue in modern particle physics and astrophysics. The direct mass measurement is the only theory-unrelated experimental tool capable to probe such quantity. The HOLMES experiment aims to measure the end-point energy of the electron capture (EC) decay of 163Ho with a statistical sensitivity on...