Low Temperature Detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Update on Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and Cryogenic Detection

   • L. Stodolsky

   Pages 1-8

3. New Results on the Basic Properties of Superheated Granules Detectors

   • L. Gonzales-Mestres, D. Perret-Gallix

   Pages 9-29

4. Investigation of Superconducting Tin Granules for a Low-Energy Neutrino or Dark Matter Detector

   • J. Fent, P. Freund, J. Gebauer, K. Pretzl, N. Schmitz, A. Singsaas et al.

   Pages 30-36

5. SQUID Detection of Superheated Granules

   • M. Le Gros, B. G. Turrell, M. J. C. Crooks, A. Kotlicki, A. K. Drukier

   Pages 37-43

6. VLSI Superconducting Particle Detectors

   • O. Liengme

   Pages 44-52

7. “Minicylinder” Design for Solar Neutrino Detection (A naive proposal)

   • G. Vesztergombi

   Pages 53-58

8. Electron Beam Detection with Superheated Superconducting Grains

   • A. de Bellefon, P. Espigat, D. Broszkiewicz, R. Bruere-Dawson

   Pages 59-64

9. Monte Carlo Simulation of a Double-Beta Decay Experiment with Superconducting-Superheated Tin Granules

   • P. Andreo, J. G. Esteve, A. F. Pacheco

   Pages 65-73

10. An Indium Solar Neutrino Experiment

    • N. E. Booth, D. J. Goldie, B. M. Hawes, D. A. Hukin, J. L. Lloyd, C. Patel et al.

    Pages 74-85

11. Cryogenic Detection of Particles, Development Effort in the United States

    • B. Sadoulet

    Pages 86-93

12. Calorimetric Detectors at Low Temperatures

    • F. v. Feilitzsch, T. Hertrich, H. Kraus, L. Oberauer, Th. Peterreins, F. Pröbst et al.

    Pages 94-112

13. The Possible Impact of Thermal Detectors in Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics

    • E. Fiorini

    Pages 113-121

14. Considerations on Front End Electronics for Bolometric Detectors with Resistive Readout

    • A. Alessandrello, D. V. Camin, A. Giuliani, G. Pessina

    Pages 122-134

15. Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering in Ultralow-Temperature Calorimetric Detectors

    • T. O. Niinikoski, A. Rijllart

    Pages 135-142

16. Data Acquisition and Analysis of Calorimetric Signals

    • T. O. Niinikoski, A. Rijllart

    Pages 143-149

17. The Use of Rotons in Liquid Helium to Detect Neutrinos

    • R. E. Lanou, H. J. Maris, G. M. Seidel

    Pages 150-156

18. Back Matter

    Pages 157-159

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For the last few years astrophysicists and elementary particle physicists have been working jointly on the following fascinating phenomena: 1. The solar neutrino puzzle and the question: What happens to the neutrinos on their way from the sun to the earth? 2. The growing evidence that our universe is filled with about 10 times more matter than is visible and the question: What is dark matter made of? 3. The supernovae explosions and the question: What do neutrinos tell us about such explosions and vice versa? The experimental investigation of these phenomena is difficult and involves unconventional techniques. These are presently under development, and bring together such seemingly disparate disciplines as astrophysics and elementary particle physics on the one hand and superconductivity and solid-state physics on the other. This book contains the proceedings of a workshop held in March 1987 at which the above subjects and their experimental investigation were discussed. The proposed experimental methods are very new. They involve frontier developments in low temperature and solid-state physics. The book should be useful to researchers and students who actively work on these subjects or plan to enter the field. It also offers the non-expert reader with some physics background a good survey of the activities in this field.

• Supernova
• astrophysics
• earth
• solid-state physics
• sun
• superconductivity
• temperature

• Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München 40, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Klaus Pretzl, Norbert Schmitz, Leo Stodolsky

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