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A novel technique for the study of pile-up events in cryogenic bolometers
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A novel technique for the study of pile-up events in cryogenic bolometers

A Armatol, E Armengaud, W Armstrong, C Augier, F Avignone, O Azzolini, A Barabash, G Bari, A Barresi, D Baudin, …
Physical review. C, v 104, p015501
23 Nov 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.104.015501View
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Abstract

benchmark bolometer cryogenics data analysis method double-beta decay: (0neutrino) efficiency Gran Sasso Instrumentation and Detectors numerical calculation Physics pile-up time resolution
Precise characterization of detector time resolution is of crucial importance for next-generation cryogenic-bolometer experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, such as CUPID, in order to reject background due to pile-up of two-neutrino double-beta decay events. In this paper, we describe a technique developed to study the pile-up rejection capability of cryogenic bolometers. Our approach, which consists of producing controlled pile-up events with a programmable waveform generator, has the benefit that we can reliably and reproducibly control the time separation and relative energy of the individual components of the generated pile-up events. The resulting data allow us to optimize and benchmark analysis strategies to discriminate between individual and pile-up pulses. We describe a test of this technique performed with a small array of detectors at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in Italy; we obtain a 90% rejection efficiency against pulser-generated pile-up events with rise time of ~15 ms down to time separation between the individual events of 2 ms.

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