10–12 May 2021
Canada/Eastern timezone

CUTE - a low-background cryogenic facility for kg-scale experiment

12 May 2021, 11:00
20m

Speaker

Wolfgang Rau

Description

The Cryogenic Underground TEst facility (CUTE) – developed as a test facility for devices that require low temperatures (~10 mK) and low backgrounds – is operational at SNOLAB since 2019. Particular care was also taken in providing a low-noise and low-vibration environment for the experimental setup. This presentation discusses the features and performance of the facility, the current operation for testing SuperCDMS detectors and the plans for a first dark matter search with these detectors, as well as possible future uses for the testing of other cryogenic devices (e.g. particle detectors or Q-bits) or small scale rare event searches.

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