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The p-type point-contact germanium detectors are novel techniques offering kg-scale radiation sensors with sub-keV sensitivities. They have been used for light Dark Matter WIMPs searches and may have potential applications in neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-14 H. B. Li , the TEXONO Collaboration

The p-type point-contact germanium detectors have been adopted for light dark matter WIMP searches and the studies of low energy neutrino physics. These detectors exhibit anomalous behavior to events located at the surface layer. The…

$P$-type high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are widely used across many scientific domains, and current data analysis methods have served well in many use cases. However, applications like low-background experiments that search for rare…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 P. Zhang , W. Dai , Q. Zhang , F. Hagemann , O. Schulz , C. Alvarez-Garcia , L. Yang , Q. Yue , Z. Zeng , J. Cheng , H. Ma

The p-type point-contact germanium (pPCGe) detectors have been widely adopted in searches for low energy physics events such as neutrinos and dark matter. This is due to their enhanced capabilities of background rejection, sensitivity at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-30 Jia-Shian Wang , Manoj Kumar Singh , Hau-Bin Li , Henry Tsz-King Wong

P-type point contact (PPC) germanium detectors are used in rare event and low-background searches, including neutrinoless double beta (0vbb) decay, low-energy nuclear recoils, and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. The detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-09 F. Edzards , L. Hauertmann , I. Abt , C. Gooch , B. Lehnert , X. Liu , S. Mertens , D. C. Radford , O. Schulz , M. Willers

CoGeNT employs p-type point-contact (PPC) germanium detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). By virtue of its low energy threshold and ability to reject surface backgrounds, this type of device allows an…

A new type of radiation detector, a p-type modified electrode germanium diode, is presented. The prototype displays, for the first time, a combination of features (mass, energy threshold and background expectation) required for a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 P. S. Barbeau , J. I. Collar , O. Tench

High Purity germanium point-contact detectors have low energy thresholds and excellent energy resolution over a wide energy range, and are thus widely used in nuclear and particle physics. In rare event searches, such as neutrinoless double…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Mertens , A. Hegai , D. C. Radford , N. Abgrall , Y. -D. Chan , R. D. Martin , A. W. P. Poon , C. Schmitt

The ultralow detection threshold, ultralow intrinsic background, and excellent energy resolution of p-type point-contact germanium detector are important for rare-event searches, in particular for the detection of direct dark matter…

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of natural and enriched high purity germanium detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76-Ge and perform a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with masses…

To reduce background in experiments looking for rare events, such as the GERDA double beta decay experiment, it is necessary to employ active background-suppression techniques. One of such techniques is the pulse shape analysis of signals…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-12-10 Dušan Budjáš , Marik Barnabé Heider , Oleg Chkvorets , Stefan Schönert , Nikita Khanbekov

Experiments built to search for neutrinoless double beta-decay are limited in their sensitivity not only by the exposure but also by the amount of background encountered. Radioactive isotopes in the surrounding of the detectors which emit…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Abt , A. Caldwell , K. Kröninger , J. Liu , X. Liu , B. Majorovits

The ability of background discrimination using pulse shape discrimination (PSD) in broad-energy germanium (BEGe) detectors makes them as competitive candidates for neutrinoless double beta decay (0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta}) experiments. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-28 Zhi Zeng , Yu-Hao Mi , Ming Zeng , Hao Ma , Qian Yue , Jian-Ping Cheng , Jun-Li Li , Rui Qiu , Hui Zhang

Nuclear recoil measurements with high-purity Germanium detectors are very promising to directly detect dark matter candidates. The main background sources in such experiments are natural radioactivity and microphonic noise. Digital pulse…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Baudis , J. Hellmig , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , Y. Ramachers , J. W. Hammer , A. Mayer

The detection of low-energy deposition in the range of sub-eV through ionization using germanium (Ge) with a bandgap of $\sim$0.7 eV requires internal amplification of charge signal. This can be achieved through high electric field which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-23 W. -Z. Wei , H. Mei , K. Kooi , D. -M. Mei , J. Liu , J. -C. Li , R. Panth , G. -J. Wang

A novel Compton Scanner setup has been built, commissioned and operated at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich to collect pulses from bulk events in high-purity germanium detectors for pulse shape studies. In this fully automated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-25 I. Abt , C. Gooch , F. Hagemann , L. Hauertmann , D. Hervas Aguilar , X. Liu , O. Schulz , M. Schuster , A. J. Zsigmond

Experiments searching for rare processes like neutrinoless double beta decay heavily rely on the identification of background events to reduce their background level and increase their sensitivity. We present a novel machine learning based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-04 P. Holl , L. Hauertmann , B. Majorovits , O. Schulz , M. Schuster , A. J. Zsigmond
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