Phonon Pulse Shape Discrimination in SuperCDMS Soudan

被引：7

作者：

Hertel, S. A. ^{[1
]}

Pyle, M. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02189 USA

[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS | 2012年 / 167卷 / 5-6期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Cryogenics; Dark matter; Electron-phonon interactions; Germanium; DETECTOR; CHARGE; QUASIDIFFUSION; GE;

D O I：

10.1007/s10909-012-0498-6

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

SuperCDMS is the next phase of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, which measures both phonon and charge signals generated by particle recoils within a germanium target mass. Charge signals are employed both in the definition of a fiducial volume and in the rejection of electron recoil background events. Alternatively, phonons generated by the charge carriers can also be used for the same two goals. This paper describes preliminary efforts to observe and quantify these contributions to the phonon signal and then use them to reject background events. A simple analysis using only one pulse shape parameter shows bulk electron recoil vs. bulk nuclear recoil discrimination to the level of 1:10(3) (limited by the statistics of the data), with little degradation in discrimination ability down to at least 7 keV recoil energy. Such phonon-only discrimination can provide a useful cross-check to the standard discrimination methods, and it also points towards the potential of a device optimized for a phonon-only measurement.

引用

页码：1173 / 1178

页数：6

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