Energy calibration of germanium detectors for the Majorana Demonstrator

Arnquist, I.J.; Avignone III, F.T.; Barabash, A.S.; Barton, C.J.; Bhimani, K.H.; Blalock, E.; Bos, B.; Busch, M.; Buuck, M.; Caldwell, T.S.; Chan, Y.-D.; Christofferson, C.D.; Chu, P.-H.; Clark, M.L.; Cuesta, C.; Detwiler, J.A.; Efremenko, Yu.; Ejiri, H.; Elliott, S.R.; Giovanetti, G.K.; Green, M.P.; Gruszko, J.; Guinn, I.S.; Guiseppe, V.E.; Haufe, C.R.; Henning, R.; Hervas Aguilar, D.; Hoppe, E.W.; Hostiuc, A.; Kidd, M.F.; Kim, I.; Kouzes, R.T.; Lannen V, T.E.; Li, A.; López-Castaño, J.M.; Martin, E.L.; Martin, R.D.; Massarczyk, R.; Meijer, S.J.; Oli, T.K.; Paudel, L.S.; Pettus, W.; Poon, A.W.P.; Radford, D.C.; Reine, A.L.; Rielage, K.; Ruof, N.W.; Schaper, D.C.; Tedeschi, D.; Varner, R.L.; Vasilyev, S.; Wilkerson, J.F.; Wiseman, C.; Xu, W.; Yu, C.-H.; Zhu, B.X.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/18/09/P09023

Energy calibration of germanium detectors for the Majorana Demonstrator

Journal Article · Fri Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Journal of Instrumentation

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/09/P09023· OSTI ID:3003293

Arnquist, I.J.; Avignone III, F.T.; Barabash, A.S.; Barton, C.J.; Bhimani, K.H.; Blalock, E.; Bos, B.; Busch, M.; Buuck, M.; Caldwell, T.S.; Chan, Y.-D.; Christofferson, C.D.; Chu, P.-H.; Clark, M.L.; Cuesta, C.; Detwiler, J.A.; Efremenko, Yu.; Ejiri, H.; Elliott, S.R.; Giovanetti, G.K. more »

The Majorana Demonstrator was a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) in the ⁷⁶Ge isotope. It was staged at the 4850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. The experiment consisted of 58 germanium detectors housed in a low background shield and was calibrated once per week by deploying a ²²⁸Th line source for 1 to 2 hours. The energy scale calibration determination for the detector array was automated using custom analysis tools. We describe the offline procedure for calibration of the Demonstrator germanium detectors, including the simultaneous fitting of multiple spectral peaks, estimation of energy scale uncertainties, and the automation of the calibration procedure.

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Research Organization:: Duke University, Durham, NC (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Contributing Organization:: The Majorana Collaboration; The Majorana collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725; AC05-76RL01830; FG02-97ER41020; FG02-97ER41033; FG02-97ER41041; FG02-97ER41042; SC0012612; SC0014445; SC0018060; SC0022339

OSTI ID:: 3003293

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2005828
OSTI ID: 2229283
OSTI ID: 2280631
OSTI ID: 2281978
OSTI ID: 2294168
OSTI ID: 3010239

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--21-27784; PNNL-SA--165183

Journal Information:: Journal of Instrumentation, Journal Name: Journal of Instrumentation Journal Issue: 09 Vol. 18; ISSN 1748-0221

Publisher:: IOP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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