Successful irradiation campaign on PRIMA/PRIMAger KIDs detectors with DRACuLA
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| author | Sauvage, Valentin Besnard, Anaïs Conenna, Giulia Karatsu, Kenichi Yates, Stephen J. C. Ferrari, Lorenza Maffei, Bruno |
| author_facet | Sauvage, Valentin Besnard, Anaïs Conenna, Giulia Karatsu, Kenichi Yates, Stephen J. C. Ferrari, Lorenza Maffei, Bruno |
| contents | DRACuLA (Detector irRAdiation Cryogenic faciLity for Astrophysics) is a mobile dilution refrigerator platform developed at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) to expose sub-Kelvin detectors to particle beams at their nominal operating temperature, in the range 50-300 mK. We report on its design, beam-line integration at the Particle Therapy Research Center (PARTREC) in Groningen, and the operational performance achieved during the September 2025 irradiation campaign on Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) arrays developed by SRON for the PRIMA mission. The detector samples were maintained at 120 mK throughout a 12-hour proton irradiation run at 184 MeV. The scientific results of this campaign are reported in the companion paper by Besnard et al. |
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| spellingShingle | Successful irradiation campaign on PRIMA/PRIMAger KIDs detectors with DRACuLA Sauvage, Valentin Besnard, Anaïs Conenna, Giulia Karatsu, Kenichi Yates, Stephen J. C. Ferrari, Lorenza Maffei, Bruno Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics DRACuLA (Detector irRAdiation Cryogenic faciLity for Astrophysics) is a mobile dilution refrigerator platform developed at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) to expose sub-Kelvin detectors to particle beams at their nominal operating temperature, in the range 50-300 mK. We report on its design, beam-line integration at the Particle Therapy Research Center (PARTREC) in Groningen, and the operational performance achieved during the September 2025 irradiation campaign on Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) arrays developed by SRON for the PRIMA mission. The detector samples were maintained at 120 mK throughout a 12-hour proton irradiation run at 184 MeV. The scientific results of this campaign are reported in the companion paper by Besnard et al. |
| title | Successful irradiation campaign on PRIMA/PRIMAger KIDs detectors with DRACuLA |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23216 |