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SQUID Detection of Superheated Granules

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Low Temperature Detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter

Abstract

We report two tests designed to study the practicality of a superheated superconducting colloid detector using a SQUID readout system. In the first test, the individual ‘flips‘ of ten 15μm radius tin grains were observed as the temperature was swept through the superheated superconducting — normal phase transition. In the second test, we were able to observe transitions induced by 90 keV γ-rays in a colloid of 5 μm radius grains in epoxy.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T A6

    M. Le Gros, B. G. Turrell & M. J. C. Crooks

  2. Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Hoza 69, PL-00-681, Warsaw, Poland

    A. Kotlicki

  3. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 80 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    A. K. Drukier

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Le Gros, M., Turrell, B.G., Crooks, M.J.C., Kotlicki, A., Drukier, A.K. (1987). SQUID Detection of Superheated Granules. In: Pretzl, K., Schmitz, N., Stodolsky, L. (eds) Low Temperature Detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72959-1_4

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