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Simulations of Noise in Phase-Separated Transition-Edge Sensors for SuperCDMS

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We briefly review a simple model of superconducting-normal phase-separation in transition-edge sensors (TESs) in the SuperCDMS experiment. After discussing some design considerations relevant to the TESs in the experiment, we study noise sources in both the phase-separated and phase-uniform cases. Such simulations will be valuable for optimizing the critical temperature and TES length of future SuperCDMS detectors.

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This work is supported by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0847342.

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  1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    A. J. Anderson, S. W. Leman, E. Figueroa-Feliciano & K. McCarthy

  2. Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    M. Pyle & M. Cherry

  3. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    T. Doughty

  4. Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 95053, USA

    B. Young

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Anderson, A.J., Leman, S.W., Pyle, M. et al. Simulations of Noise in Phase-Separated Transition-Edge Sensors for SuperCDMS. J Low Temp Phys 167, 135–140 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-012-0555-1

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