We present the status of the development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) detector with the cryogenic preamplifier as far-infrared single photon detector for the COsmic BAckground Neutrino Decay search (COBAND) experiment. The photon energy spectrum from the radiative decay of the cosmic background neutrino is expected to have a sharp cutoff at high energy end in a far-infrared region ranging from 15 meV to 30 meV. The detector is required to measure an individual photon energy with a sufficient energy resolution less than 2% for identifying the cutoff structure, and to be designed for a rocket or satellite experiment. We develop an array of Nb/Al-STJ pixels which can detect a single far-infrared photon delivered by a diffractive grating according to its wavelength. To achieve high signal-to-noise ratio of the STJ, we use a preamplifier made with the Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technique that can be operated around 0.3K. We have developed the Nb/Al-STJ with the SOI cryogenic preamplifier and have tested the detector performance around 0.3K.
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Kim, S. H., Takeuchi, Y., Takemasa, K., Nagata, K., Kasahara, K., Yagi, S., … Kim, S. B. (2018). Development of superconducting tunnel junction photon detectors with cryogenic preamplifier for COBAND experiment. In Springer Proceedings in Physics (Vol. 213, pp. 242–248). Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1316-5_45
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