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A new high-background-rejection dark matter Ge cryogenic detector

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2011-06-07 v1

Abstract

A new design of a cryogenic germanium detector for dark matter search is presented, taking advantage of the coplanar grid technique of event localisation for improved background discrimination. Experiments performed with prototype devices in the EDELWEISS II setup at the Modane underground facility demonstrate the remarkably high efficiency of these devices for the rejection of low-energy β\beta, approaching 105^5 . This opens the road to investigate the range beyond 108^{-8} pb in the WIMP-nucleon collision cross-sections, as proposed in the EURECA project of a one-ton cryogenic detector mass.

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@article{arxiv.0905.0753,
  title  = {A new high-background-rejection dark matter Ge cryogenic detector},
  author = {A. Broniatowski and X. Defay and E. Armengaud and L. Berge and A. Benoit and O. Besida and J. Blumer and A. Chantelauze and M. Chapellier and G. Chardin and F. Charlieux and S. Collin and O. Crauste and M. De Jesus and P. Di Stefano and Y. Dolgorouki and J. Domange and L. Dumoulin and K. Eitel and J. Gascon and G. Gerbier and M. Gros and M. Hannawald and S. Herve and A. Juillard and H. Kluck and V. Kozlov and R. Lemrani and A. Lubashevskiy and C. Marrache and S. Marnieros and X. -F. Navick and C. Nones and E. Olivieri and P. Pari and B. Paul and S. Rozov and V. Sanglard and S. Scorza and S. Semikh and M. -A. Verdier and L. Vagneron and E. Yakushev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0753},
  year   = {2011}
}

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submitted to Physical Review Letters

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