Energy Loss Due to Defect Formation from $^{206}$Pb Recoils in SuperCDMS Germanium Detectors

Autor: Agnese, Robert, Aralis, Taylor, Aramaki, Tsuguo, Arnquist, Isaac, Azadbakht, Elham, Baker, William, Banik, Samir, Barker, D'Ann, Bauer, Dan, Binder, Thomas, Bowles, Michael, Brink, Paul, Bunker, Ray, Cabrera, Blas, Calkins, Robert, Cartaro, Concetta, Cerdeno, David, Chang, Yen-Yung, Cooley, Jodi, Cornell, Brett, Cushman, Priscilla, Di Stefano, Philippe, Doughty, Todd, Fascione, Eleanor, Figueroa, Tali, Fink, Caleb, Fritts, Matt, Gerbier, Gilles, Germond, Richard, Ghaith, Muad, Golwala, Sunil, Harris, Rusty, Hong, Ziqing, Hoppe, Eric, Hsu, Lauren, Huber, Martin, Iyer, Vijay, Jardin, Dan, Jena, Chitrasen, Kelsey, Michael, Kennedy, Allison, Kubik, Andrew, Kurinsky, Noah, Lawrence, Richard, Loer, Ben, Lopez-Asamar, Elias, Lukens, Pat, MacDonell, Danika, Mahapatra, Rupak, Mandic, Vuk, Mast, Nicholas, Miller, Eric, Mirabolfathi, Nader, Mohanty, Bedangadas, Morales, Jorge, Nelson, Jack, Orrell, John, Oser, Scott, Page, William, Partridge, Richard, Pepin, Mark, Ponce, Francisco, Poudel, Sudip, Pyle, Matt, Qiu, Hang, Rau, Wolfgang, Reisetter, Angela, Ren, Tom, Reynolds, Tyler, Roberts, Amy, Robinson, Alan, Rogers, Hannah, Saab, Tarek, Sadoulet, Bernard, Sander, Joel, Scarff, Andrew, Schnee, Richard, Scorza, Silvia, Senapati, Kartik, Serfass, Bruno, Speller, Danielle, Stein, Matthew, Street, Joseph, Tanaka, Hirohisa, Toback, David, Underwood, Ryan, Villano, Anthony, von Krosigk, Belina, Watkins, Samuel, Wilson, Jon, Wilson, Matthew, Winchell, Joshua, Wright, Dennis, Yellin, Steve, Young, Betty, Zhang, Xiaohe, Zhao, Xuji
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 092101 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/1.5041457
Popis: The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (SuperCDMS) at the Soudan Underground Laboratory studied energy loss associated with Frenkel defect formation in germanium crystals at mK temperatures using in situ $^{210}$Pb sources. We examine the spectrum of $^{206}$Pb nuclear recoils near its expected 103 keV endpoint energy and determine an energy loss of $\left(6.08\pm0.18\right)$ %, which we attribute to defect formation. From this result and using TRIM simulations, we extract the first experimentally determined average displacement threshold energy of $\left(19.7^{+0.6}_{-0.5}\right)$ eV for germanium. This has implications for the analysis thresholds of future germanium-based dark matter searches.
Comment: 4 Figures, Two data files, One data release description file
Databáze: arXiv