Regensburg 2007 – scientific programme
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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 8: Superconductivity - Poster Session
TT 8.36: Poster
Monday, March 26, 2007, 14:00–17:45, Poster A
Development of metallic magnetic calorimeters for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy — •Markus Linck, Andreas Burck, Loredana Gastaldo, Sebastian Kempf, Jan-Patrick Porst, Hannes Rotzinger, Sönke Schäfer, Andreas Fleischmann, and Christian Enss — Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Universität Heidelberg, INF 227, 69120 Heidelberg, Deutschland
X-ray detectors based on the concept of magnetic calorimetry are well suited for high-resolution spectroscopy. Metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMC) make use of a metallic paramagnetic temperature sensor, gold doped with few hundred ppm erbium, which is in tight thermal contact with a metallic absorber. The sensor is placed in a weak magnetic field, its magnetization is used to monitor the temperature. High-energy resolution can be obtainted by using a low-noise, high-bandwidth DC SQUID to measure the small change in magnetization upon the absorption of an X-ray.
In many applications it is important to have a detector that has a high stopping power for photons up to 10 keV and allows to measure with a high count rate. The design of the detector we present is based on a numerical calculation that gives the optimal values for sensor size, erbium concentration and applied magnetic field. The detector has a stopping power of about 98 % at 6 keV and the decay time has been improved by a better thermal link between the sensor and the thermal bath. The energy resolution we achieved is Δ EFWHM= 2.7 eV for X-ray energies up to 6.5 keV.