Abstract
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is one of the leading experiments in the direct search for weakly interacting massive particles in the mass range below 10 GeV/c2. Particles are detected in cryogenic semiconductor detectors; their energy deposition produces phonons and liberates charges which are measured in TES-based phonon sensors and charge-collecting electrodes. The next generation of the experiment will be deployed at SNOLAB and aims to further reduce the detection threshold to a few tens of eV by reducing the noise in the readout circuit and improving the design of the phonon sensors. Traditionally, radioactive sources are used to calibrate the energy scale and to monitor detector stability. However, in most cases, it takes a long time to accumulate enough events to identify peaks in the energy spectrum. Moreover, gammas of low energy as would be required to calibrate the bottom range of the detector’s energy range cannot penetrate the cryostat shielding. This study investigates the possibility of using pulsed infrared LEDs mounted inside the cryostat as alternative calibration source.
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