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Compton scattering is one of the dominant interaction processes in germanium for photons with an energy of around two MeV. If a photon scatters only once inside a germanium detector, the resulting event contains only one electron which…

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

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

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 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 shape of the undepleted volume of a p-type high-purity Broad Energy Germanium detector, dependent on the bias voltage, has been imaged by measuring spatially-resolved Compton-scattering efficiency. The bias voltage was raised stepwise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-18 Iris Abt , Arthur Butorev , Felix Hagemann , David Hervas Aguilar , Johanna Lührs , Julia Penner , Oliver Schulz

In the rare physics events search, liquid and solid detector plays an important role. Its analysis is based on the detection of excess events over the expected background or on the detection of an annual event rate modulation. Germanium…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-18 Akash Pandey , D. Singh , V. Singh

$P$-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

High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors are powerful detectors for gamma-ray spectroscopy. The sensitivity to low-intensity gamma-ray peaks is often hindered by the presence of Compton continuum distributions, originated by gamma-rays…

Low-energy background through Compton scattering from the ambient $\gamma$ rays can be contaminated in direct dark matter search experiments. In this paper, we report comparable measurements on low-energy spectra via Compton scattering from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-26 J. W. Hu , L. T. Yang , Q. Yue , X. P. Geng , H. B. Li , Y. F. Liang , S. T. Lin , S. K. Liu , H. Ma , L. Wang , H. T. Wong , B. T. Zhang

To build upon the goals of the upcoming INTEGRAL mission, the next generation soft gamma-ray (0.2-20 MeV) observatory will require improved sensitivity to nuclear line emission while maintaining high spectral resolution. We present the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven E. Boggs , Pierre Jean

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…

High-purity germanium detectors are widely used in rare-event searches due to their excellent energy resolution and extremely high intrinsic (radio)purity. In experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{76}$Ge such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-14 Alex Biondi , Krzysztof Szczepaniec , Tomasz Mróz , Marcin Misiaszek , Grzegorz Zuzel

Pulse shape analysis of germanium gamma-ray spectrometer signals can yield information on the radial position of individual gamma-ray interactions within the germanium crystal. A parametric pulse shape analysis based on calculation of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 John L. Orrell , Craig E. Aalseth , Matthew W. Cooper , Jeremy D. Kephart , Carolyn E. Seifert

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-14 I. Abt , A. Caldwell , D. Lenz , J. Liu , X. Liu , B. Majorovits

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…

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

Diverse searches for direct dark matter (DM) in effective electromagnetic and leptophilic interactions resulting from new physics, as well as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with unconventional electronic recoils, are…

A Compton camera is the most promising approach for gamma-ray detection in the energy region from several hundred keV to MeV, especially for application in high energy astrophysics. In order to obtain good angular resolution, semiconductor…

For long time non-pure beta emitters are avoided from PET imaging due to extra dose and increase in background from Compton scattering. But advent of high-resolution Compton camera system opens up new domain of imaging. Various non-pure…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Satyajit Ghosh , Pragya Das

UCGretina, a GEANT4 simulation of the GRETINA gamma-ray tracking array of highly-segmented high-purity germanium detectors is described. We have developed a model of the array, in particular of the Quad Module and the capsules, that gives…

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