Testing the Ge Detectors for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

W Xu,C Wiseman,W Tornow,V Egorov,E Romero-Romero,S Vasilyev,M Boswell,B Shanks,E Yakushev,S Macmullin,K Pushkin,J Rager,N Abgrall,C Cuesta,A Galindo-Uribarri,K Gusev,N Snyder,J Macmullin,K Vorren,S Mertens,J Gruszko,O Kochetov,P Finnerty,V Brudanin,J Goett,M Shirchenko,D Byram,A Hegai,V Yumatov,R Henning,E Aguayo,M Busch,M Nomachi,K Vetter,T Shima,H Ejiri,D C Radford ,G K Giovanetti ,M P Green ,M A Howe ,R G H Robertson ,A W P Poon ,J F Wilkerson ,A L Hallin ,R D Martin ,V E Guiseppe ,B D Laferriere ,S R Elliott ,A Schubert ,Y D Chan ,P J Doe ,F T Avignone ,A Caldwell ,D G Phillips ,A R Young ,B R White ,M Ronquest ,Y V Efremenko ,R L Varner ,E W Hoppe ,Nicole Overman ,C O’shaughnessy ,A S Barabash ,A M Suriano ,F M Fraenkle ,C D Christofferson ,J E Trimble ,F Bertrand ,L E Leviner ,S J Meijer ,M F Kidd ,D C Combs ,C.‐H Yu ,J L Orrell ,Richard T Kouzes ,J E Fast ,J C Loach ,K J Keeter ,С И Коновалов ,J A Detwiler ,K J Snavely ,J Leon,R Hazama,S Howard,V Timkin,K Rielage,J Thompson

doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.104

Abstract

High purity germanium (HPGe) crystals will be used for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, where they serve as both the source and the detector for neutrinoless double beta decay. It is crucial for the experiment to understand the performance of the HPGe crystals. A variety of crystal properties are being investigated, including basic properties such as energy resolution, efficiency, uniformity, capacitance, leakage current and crystal axis orientation, as well as more sophisticated properties, e.g. pulse shapes and dead layer and transition layer distributions. In this talk, we will present our measurements that characterize the HPGe crystals. We will also discuss the our simulation package for the detector characterization setup, and show that additional information can be extracted from data-simulation comparisons.

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