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Magnetically Coupled Microcalorimeters

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Magnetic calorimeters have been under development for over 20 years targeting a wide variety of different applications that require very high resolution spectroscopy. They have a number of properties that distinguish them from other low temperature detectors. In this paper we review these properties and emphasize the types of application to which they are most suited. We will describe what has been learned about the best materials, geometries, and read-out amplifiers and our understanding of the measured performance and theoretical limits. While most magnetic calorimeter research has concentrated on the use of paramagnets to provide the temperature sensitivity, recently magnetically coupled microcalorimeters have been in development that utilize the diamagnetic response of superconductors. We will contrast some of the properties of the two different magnetic sensor types.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank J. Beyer, D. Drung, C. Kilbourne, Y.-H. Kim, F.S. Porter, for many useful and stimulating discussions. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of NASA Office of Space Science, contract NNX09AC41G from ROSES 2008.

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  1. CRESST and X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    S. R. Bandler, J.-P. Porst & S. J. Smith

  2. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    S. R. Bandler

  3. Quantum Devices, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA

    K. D. Irwin

  4. Detector Systems Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    D. Kelly, P. N. Nagler, J. E. Sadleir & T. R. Stevenson

  5. Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    J.-P. Porst & G. M. Seidel

  6. Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    H. Rotzinger

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Bandler, S.R., Irwin, K.D., Kelly, D. et al. Magnetically Coupled Microcalorimeters. J Low Temp Phys 167, 254–268 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-012-0544-4

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