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A new package to simulate the formation of electrical pulses in segmented true-coaxial high purity germanium detectors is presented. The computation of the electric field and weighting potentials inside the detector as well as of the trajectories of the charge carriers is described. In addition, the treatment of bandwidth limitations and noise are discussed. Comparison of simulated to measured pulses, obtained from an 18-fold segmented detector operated inside a cryogenic test facility, are presented.
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Abt, I., Caldwell, A., Lenz, D. et al. Pulse shape simulation for segmented true-coaxial HPGe detectors. Eur. Phys. J. C 68, 609–618 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1364-9
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