Development of the Low Frequency Telescope focal plane detector arrays for LiteBIRD

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Main Authors: Ghigna, Tommaso, Suzuki, Aritoki, Westbrook, Benjamin, Raum, Christopher, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Beckman, Shawn, Farias, Nicole, de Haan, Tijmen, Halverson, Nils, Hazumi, Masashi, Hubmayr, Johannes, Jaehnig, Greg, Lee, Adrian T., Stever, Samantha L., Zhou, Yu
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author Ghigna, Tommaso
Suzuki, Aritoki
Westbrook, Benjamin
Raum, Christopher
Akamatsu, Hiroki
Beckman, Shawn
Farias, Nicole
de Haan, Tijmen
Halverson, Nils
Hazumi, Masashi
Hubmayr, Johannes
Jaehnig, Greg
Lee, Adrian T.
Stever, Samantha L.
Zhou, Yu
author_facet Ghigna, Tommaso
Suzuki, Aritoki
Westbrook, Benjamin
Raum, Christopher
Akamatsu, Hiroki
Beckman, Shawn
Farias, Nicole
de Haan, Tijmen
Halverson, Nils
Hazumi, Masashi
Hubmayr, Johannes
Jaehnig, Greg
Lee, Adrian T.
Stever, Samantha L.
Zhou, Yu
contents LiteBIRD, a forthcoming JAXA mission, aims to accurately study the microwave sky within the 40-400 GHz frequency range divided into 15 distinct nominal bands. The primary objective is to constrain the CMB inflationary signal, specifically the primordial B-modes. LiteBIRD targets the CMB B-mode signal on large angular scales, where the primordial inflationary signal is expected to dominate, with the goal of reaching a tensor-to-scalar ratio sensitivity of $σ_r\sim0.001$. LiteBIRD frequency bands will be split among three telescopes, with some overlap between telescopes for better control of systematic effects. Here we report on the development status of the detector arrays for the Low Frequency Telescope (LFT), which spans the 34-161 GHz range, with 12 bands subdivided between four types of trichroic pixels consisting of lenslet-coupled sinuous antennas. The signal from the antenna is bandpass filtered and sensed by AlMn Transition-Edge Sensors (TES). We provide an update on the status of the design and development of LiteBIRD's LFT LF1 (40-60-78 GHz), LF2 (50-68-89 GHz) pixels. We discuss design choices motivated by LiteBIRD scientific goals. In particular we focus on the details of the optimization of the design parameters of the sinuous antenna, on-chip bandpass filters, cross-under and impedance transformers and all the RF components that define the LF1 and LF2 pixel detection chain. We present this work in the context of the technical challenges and physical constraints imposed by the finite size of the instrument.
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spellingShingle Development of the Low Frequency Telescope focal plane detector arrays for LiteBIRD
Ghigna, Tommaso
Suzuki, Aritoki
Westbrook, Benjamin
Raum, Christopher
Akamatsu, Hiroki
Beckman, Shawn
Farias, Nicole
de Haan, Tijmen
Halverson, Nils
Hazumi, Masashi
Hubmayr, Johannes
Jaehnig, Greg
Lee, Adrian T.
Stever, Samantha L.
Zhou, Yu
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Detectors
LiteBIRD, a forthcoming JAXA mission, aims to accurately study the microwave sky within the 40-400 GHz frequency range divided into 15 distinct nominal bands. The primary objective is to constrain the CMB inflationary signal, specifically the primordial B-modes. LiteBIRD targets the CMB B-mode signal on large angular scales, where the primordial inflationary signal is expected to dominate, with the goal of reaching a tensor-to-scalar ratio sensitivity of $σ_r\sim0.001$. LiteBIRD frequency bands will be split among three telescopes, with some overlap between telescopes for better control of systematic effects. Here we report on the development status of the detector arrays for the Low Frequency Telescope (LFT), which spans the 34-161 GHz range, with 12 bands subdivided between four types of trichroic pixels consisting of lenslet-coupled sinuous antennas. The signal from the antenna is bandpass filtered and sensed by AlMn Transition-Edge Sensors (TES). We provide an update on the status of the design and development of LiteBIRD's LFT LF1 (40-60-78 GHz), LF2 (50-68-89 GHz) pixels. We discuss design choices motivated by LiteBIRD scientific goals. In particular we focus on the details of the optimization of the design parameters of the sinuous antenna, on-chip bandpass filters, cross-under and impedance transformers and all the RF components that define the LF1 and LF2 pixel detection chain. We present this work in the context of the technical challenges and physical constraints imposed by the finite size of the instrument.
title Development of the Low Frequency Telescope focal plane detector arrays for LiteBIRD
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Detectors
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19455