Speaker
Marco Vignati
(INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
Description
BULLKID (Bulky and low-threshold kinetic inductance detectors) is an R&D project on an innovative cryogenic particle detector to search for low-energy nuclear recoils induced by neutrino coherent scattering or Dark Matter interactions. The detector unit consists of an array of 60 silicon absorbers of 0.3 g each sensed by phonon-mediated, microwave-multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors. The arrays built up to now feature a total active mass of 20 g and the technology is engineered to ensure an easy scalability to a future kg-scale experiment. In this talk we will describe the BULLKID idea and we will show the recent and encouraging results obtained from the operation of the first prototypes.
Author
Marco Vignati
(INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
