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We will present the latest test results of SNSPDs as particle sensors. The characteristics of SNSPDs as fast, highly efficient, and precise in time and position make them a potential detector technology meeting the requirements of accelerator-based experiments such as those at Jefferson Lab and the Electron-Ion Collider. We will discuss the R&D program to demonstrate the viability of superconducting nanowire particle detectors beyond the original concept as a single photon sensor. The discussion will focus on recent tests to understand the mechanism of particle detection and how to optimize sensor design. This includes the first tests of superconducting nanowire sensors with a 120 GeV proton beam and ongoing tests with radioactive sources.
*This work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Offices of Nuclear Physics, under contract number DE-AC02-06CH11357 and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under the Microelectronics Co-Design Research Project “Hybrid Cryogenic Detector Architectures for Sensing and Edge Computing enabled by new Fabrication Processes” (LAB 21-2491).
