Demonstration of surface electron rejection with interleaved germanium detectors for dark matter searches Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The SuperCDMS experiment in the Soudan Underground Laboratory searches for dark matter with a 9-kg array of cryogenic germanium detectors. Symmetric sensors on opposite sides measure both charge and phonons from each particle interaction, providing excellent discrimination between electron and nuclear recoils, and between surface and interior events. Surface event rejection capabilities were tested with two 210Pb sources producing 130 beta decays/hr. In 800 live hours, no events leaked into the 8-115 keV signal region, giving upper limit leakage fraction 1.7 10-5 at 90% C.L., corresponding to < 0.6 surface event background in the future 200-kg SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment. 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

published proceedings

  • APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Agnese, R., Anderson, A. J., Balakishiyeva, D., Thakur, R. B., Bauer, D. A., Borgland, A., ... Zhang, J.

citation count

  • 54

complete list of authors

  • Agnese, R||Anderson, AJ||Balakishiyeva, D||Thakur, R Basu||Bauer, DA||Borgland, A||Brandt, D||Brink, PL||Bunker, R||Cabrera, B||Caldwell, DO||Cerdeno, DG||Chagani, H||Cherry, M||Cooley, J||Cornell, B||Crewdson, CH||Cushman, P||Daal, M||Di Stefano, PCF||Do Couto E Silva, E||Doughty, T||Esteban, L||Fallows, S||Figueroa-Feliciano, E||Fox, J||Fritts, M||Godfrey, GL||Golwala, SR||Hall, J||Harris, HR||Hasi, J||Hertel, SA||Hines, BA||Hofer, T||Holmgren, D||Hsu, L||Huber, ME||Jastram, A||Kamaev, O||Kara, B||Kelsey, MH||Kenany, SA||Kennedy, A||Kenney, CJ||Kiveni, M||Koch, K||Loer, B||Lopez Asamar, E||Mahapatra, R||Mandic, V||Martinez, C||McCarthy, KA||Mirabolfathi, N||Moffatt, RA||Moore, DC||Nadeau, P||Nelson, RH||Novak, L||Page, K||Partridge, R||Pepin, M||Phipps, A||Prasad, K||Pyle, M||Qiu, H||Radpour, R||Rau, W||Redl, P||Reisetter, A||Resch, RW||Ricci, Y||Saab, T||Sadoulet, B||Sander, J||Schmitt, R||Schneck, K||Schnee, RW||Scorza, S||Seitz, D||Serfass, B||Shank, B||Speller, D||Tomada, A||Villano, AN||Welliver, B||Wright, DH||Yellin, S||Yen, JJ||Young, BA||Zhang, J

publication date

  • January 2013