Abstract
Cryogenic germanium detectors used in dark matter searches operate at ranges of low temperature \(<\)100 \(\mathrm {mK}\) and electric field \(\sim \)1 \(\mathrm {V/cm}\) such that charge trapping in the bulk of the detector plays a significant role in the net charge collected following a particle interaction. It is shown that in EDELWEISS FID800 detectors, these trapped charges induce residual charge signals that perturb the measurement of the total charge, significantly degrading the energy resolution at high energy. It is also shown that, by reading out the signal on all the electrodes, it is possible to clearly identify these effects and correct the total charge measurement accordingly, resulting in a \(\sim \)30 % improvement of the resolution at high energy. This effect is demonstrated with data. A simple analytical model based on Shockley-Ramo’s theorem is presented, whereby this effect is due to the position dependence of signals induced by trapped charges.
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The help of the technical staff of the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane and the participant laboratories is gratefully acknowledged. The EDELWEISS project is sup- ported in part by the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (contract ANR-10-BLAN- 0422-03) and P2IO Labex (Postdoc call 2012), the German ministry of science and education (BMBF) within the Verbundforschung Astroteilchenphysik (grant 05A11VK2), the Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP) funded by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Russia) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK).
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Arnaud, Q., The EDELWEISS Collaboration. Signals Induced by Charge Carrier Trapping. J Low Temp Phys 176, 924–929 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-014-1106-8
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