Technique - (11) Cryogenic mm-wave detector arrays

Type: Experimental

Description: TES bolometers, KIDs, and MKIDs at millikelvin temperatures for CMB photon detection.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics / A&A | Vieregg Group @ UChicago
Summary:

Builds radio and mm-wave quantum-limited sensing instruments for high-energy astrophysics and cosmology. Directions: (1) PUEO — balloon-borne radio Cherenkov (Askaryan) detector for ultra-high-energy cosmogenic neutrinos; (2) RNO-G — ground-based radio neutrino array at Summit Station, Greenland; (3) UHE cosmic ray radio detection methodology; (4) CMB instrumentation (BICEP/Keck, SPT, CMB-S4). 2025 APS Fellow; 2022 Moore EPII award. Director KICP.