High-purity germanium detector ionization pulse shapes of nuclear recoils, gamma interactions and microphonism

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1999-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9901028v1

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A418 (1998) 348-354

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

11 pages (latex) including 6 postscript figures and 2 tables

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0168-9002(98)00782-7

Nuclear recoil measurements with high-purity Germanium detectors are very promising to directly detect dark matter candidates. The main background sources in such experiments are natural radioactivity and microphonic noise. Digital pulse shape analysis is an encouraging approach to reduce the background originating from the latter. To study the pulse shapes of nuclear recoil events we performed a neutron scattering experiment, which covered the ionization energy range from 20 to 80 keV. We have measured ionization efficiencies as well and found an excellent agreement with the theory of Lindhard. In a further experiment we measured pulse shapes of a radioactive gamma-source and found no difference to nuclear recoil pulse shapes. Pulse shapes originating from microphonics of a HPGe-detector are presented for the first time. A microphonic noise suppression method, crucial for dark matter direct detection experiments, can therefore be calibrated with pulse shapes from gamma-sources.

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