Test of pulse shape analysis using single Compton scattering events

Details Test of pulse shape analysis using single Compton scattering events Test of pulse shape analysis using single Compton scattering events

2007-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/0708.0917v2

Eur.Phys.J.C54:425-433,2008

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

16 pages, 6 figures, to be submitted to European Physical Journal C

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0555-0

Compton scattering is one of the dominant interaction processes in germanium for photons with an energy of around two MeV. If a photon scatters only once inside a germanium detector, the resulting event contains only one electron which normally deposits its energy within a mm range. Such events are similar to Ge-76 neutrinoless double beta-decay events with just two electrons in the final state. Other photon interactions like pair production or multiple scattering can result in events composed of separated energy deposits. One method to identify the multiple energy deposits is the use of timing information contained in the electrical response of a detector or a segment of a detector. The procedures developed to separate single- and multiple-site events are tested with specially selected event samples provided by an 18-fold segmented prototype germanium detector for Phase II of the GERmanium Detector Array, GERDA. The single Compton scattering, i.e. single-site, events are tagged by coincidently detecting the scattered photon with a second detector positioned at a defined angle. A neural network is trained to separate such events from events which come from multi-site dominated samples. Identification efficiencies of ~80% are achieved for both single- and multi-site events.

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