The matrix optimum filter for low temperature detectors dead-time reduction

Abstract

Experiments aiming at high sensitivities usually demand for a very high statistics in order to reach more precise measurements. However, for those exploiting Low Temperature Detectors (LTDs), a high source activity may represent a drawback, if the events rate becomes comparable with the detector characteristic temporal response. Indeed, since commonly used optimum filtering approaches can only process LTDs signals well isolated in time, a non-negligible part of the recorded experimental data-set is discarded and hence constitute the dead-time. In the presented study we demonstrate that, thanks to the matrix optimum filtering approach, the dead-time of an experiment exploiting LTDs can be strongly reduced.