RUI: Superconducting Phonon Sensors for Dark Matter Detectors

本科院校研究计划下的这项拨款支持超导薄膜器件的开发和制造。 它们将被用作探测器来记录弱相互作用大质量粒子的通过，这些粒子被推测为宇宙中人们热切寻找的暗物质。 新设备将在极其敏感的超导隧道结传感器中检测声子。 这项研究将在P.I.创建的先进设施中进行。前几年在旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学得到了NSF的支持。

This grant under the Research at Undergraduate Institutions program supports the development and fabrication of superconducting thin film devices. They are to be used as detectors to record the passage of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles speculated to be the eagerly sought dark matter in the universe. The new devices will detect phonons in extremely sensitive superconducting tunnel junctions sensors. The research will be carried out at the sophisticated facilities created by the P.I. with support from NSF in previous years at San Francisco State University.