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Mechanical Design and Development of TES Bolometer Detector Arrays for the Advanced ACTPol ExperimentThe next generation Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) experiment is currently underway and will consist of four Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer arrays, with three operating together, totaling 5800 detectors on the sky. Building on experience gained with the ACTPol detector arrays, AdvACT will utilize various new technologies, including 150 mm detector wafers equipped with multichroic pixels, allowing for a more densely packed focal plane. Each set of detectors includes a feedhorn array of stacked silicon wafers which form a spline pro le leading to each pixel. This is then followed by a waveguide interface plate, detector wafer, back short cavity plate, and backshort cap. Each array is housed in a custom designed structure manufactured from high purity copper and then gold plated. In addition to the detector array assembly, the array package also encloses cryogenic readout electronics. We present the full mechanical design of the AdvACT high frequency (HF) detector array package along with a detailed look at the detector array stack assemblies. This experiment will also make use of extensive hardware and software previously developed for ACT, which will be modi ed to incorporate the new AdvACT instruments. Therefore, we discuss the integration of all AdvACT arrays with pre-existing ACTPol infrastructure.
Document ID
20160010639
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Ward, Jonathan T.
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Austermann, Jason
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Beall, James A.
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Choi, Steve K.
(Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Crowley, Kevin T.
(Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Devlin, Mark J.
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Duff, Shannon M.
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Gallardo, Patricio M.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Henderson, Shawn W.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty
(Princeton Univ. Princeton, NJ, United States)
Hilton, Gene
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Hubmayr, Johannes
(National Inst. of Standards and Technology Boulder, CO, United States)
Khavari, Niloufar
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Klein, Jeffrey
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Koopman, Brian J.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Li, Dale
(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Menlo Park, CA, United States)
McMahon, Jeffrey
(Michigan Univ. Ann Arbor, MI, United States)
Mumby, Grace
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Nati, Federico
(Pennsylvania Univ. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Wollack, Edward J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Date Acquired
August 30, 2016
Publication Date
July 19, 2016
Publication Information
Publication: Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher: SPIE
Volume: 9914
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Instrumentation And Photography
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN35117
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX14AB58G
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNX13AE56G
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT)
multichroic pixels
Transition Edge Sensor (TES)

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