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ArticleJournal of low temperature physics2022

Energy Calibration of Nonlinear Microcalorimeters with Uncertainty Estimates from Gaussian Process Regression.

J W Fowler, B K Alpert, G C O'Neil, D S Swetz, J N Ullom

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Article in Journal of low temperature physics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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J W FowlerNational Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8079-0895
B K AlpertNational Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.
G C O'NeilNational Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.
D S SwetzNational Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.
J N UllomNational Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.

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Intramural NIST DOC 9999-NIST
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nonlinear energy response of cryogenic microcalorimeters is usually corrected through an empirical calibration. X-ray or gamma-ray emission lines of known shape and energy anchor a smooth function that generalizes the calibration data and converts detector measurements to energies. We argue that this function should be an approximating spline. The theory of Gaussian process regression makes a case for this functional form. It also provides an important benefit previously absent from our calibration method: a quantitative uncertainty estimate for the calibrated energies, with lower uncertainty near the best-constrained calibration points.

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Detector calibrationMicrocalorimetersSuperconducting detectors

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PMID37427309
PMCPMC10327436

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