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Design of Magnetic Shielding and Field Coils for a TES X-ray Microcalorimeter Test Platform

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The performance of transition-edge sensors (TES) and their SQUID multiplexed readouts is very sensitive to ambient magnetic field and its fluctuations. In order to run ground experiments on thousands of X-ray TES microcalorimeters with a small uniform ambient magnetic field (< 1 μT, with a uniformity < 0.1 μT), we need a very low ambient field to be trapped into the superconducting magnetic shields. We have designed a sub-Kelvin test platform to reach these specifications. For this purpose, we modeled a new design for the shielding consisting of a series of different mu-metal and superconducting shields, including a niobium shield at 50 mK, a cryoperm (A4K) shield at 3 K, and a mu-metal shield at 300 K. A magnetic field coil is used to vary the local perpendicular magnetic field over the TES array. To optimize this field, we have studied a number of different field-coil designs and the impact of the different shield geometries, in order to reach the required field uniformity.

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  1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

    Antoine R. Miniussi, Joseph S. Adams, Simon R. Bandler, James A. Chervenak, Aaron M. Datesman, Megan E. Eckart, Fred M. Finkbeiner, Richard L. Kelley, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Frederick S. Porter, John E. Sadleir, Kazuhiro Sakai, Stephen J. Smith, Nicholas A. Wakeham, Edward J. Wassell & Wonsik Yoon

  2. CRESST II, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA

    Antoine R. Miniussi, Joseph S. Adams, Kazuhiro Sakai & Stephen J. Smith

  3. SGT, Inc, Greenbelt, USA

    Aaron M. Datesman, Fred M. Finkbeiner & Edward J. Wassell

  4. Wyle Information Systems, Mclean, USA

    Antoine R. Miniussi, Joseph S. Adams, Simon R. Bandler, James A. Chervenak, Aaron M. Datesman, William B. Doriese, Megan E. Eckart, Fred M. Finkbeiner, Richard L. Kelley, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Frederick S. Porter, John E. Sadleir, Kazuhiro Sakai, Stephen J. Smith, Nicholas A. Wakeham, Edward J. Wassell, Henk J. van Weers & Wonsik Yoon

  5. NPP, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, USA

    Nicholas A. Wakeham & Wonsik Yoon

  6. NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA

    William B. Doriese

  7. SRON – Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Henk J. van Weers

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Miniussi, A.R., Adams, J.S., Bandler, S.R. et al. Design of Magnetic Shielding and Field Coils for a TES X-ray Microcalorimeter Test Platform. J Low Temp Phys 194, 433–442 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-02131-0

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