Single electron–hole pair sensitive silicon detector with surface event discrimination

Hong, Ziqing; Ren, Runze; Kurinsky, Noah; Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali; Wills, Lise; Ganjam, Suhas; Mahapatra, Rupak; Mirabolfathi, Nader; Nebolsky, Brian; Pinckney, H. Douglas; Platt, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.163757

Title: Single electron–hole pair sensitive silicon detector with surface event discrimination

Abstract

Here, we demonstrate single electron-hole pair resolution in a single-sided, contact-free 1 cm$^2$ by 1 mm thick Si crystal operated at 48 mK, with a baseline energy resolution of 3 eV. This crystal can be operated at voltages in excess of $$\pm50$$ V, resulting in a measured charge resolution of 0.06 electron-hole pairs. The high aluminum coverage ($$\sim$$70%) of this device allows for the discrimination of surface events and separation of events occurring near the center of the detector from those near the edge. We use this discrimination ability to show that dark events seen in previous detectors of a similar design are likely dominated by charge leakage along the side wall of the device. We saw only a small reduction in dark event rate with this biasing scheme, further suggesting that sidewall and edge-dominated processes are responsible for the majority of these events.

Authors:

^[1]; Ren, Runze ^[1];

^[2];

^[1];

^[3]; Ganjam, Suhas ^[4]; Mahapatra, Rupak ^[5]; Mirabolfathi, Nader ^[5]; Nebolsky, Brian ^[1];

^[1]; Platt, Mark ^[5]

Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Montreal, QC (Canada)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)

Publication Date:: 2020-03-06

Research Org.:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)

OSTI Identifier:: 1542181

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1776919

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1903.06517; FERMILAB-PUB-19-097-AE-E
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002; oai:inspirehep.net:1725230

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; PHY-1809730

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 963; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Silicon calorimeter; Low-threshold; Dark matter; Quantization

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                    Hong, Ziqing, Ren, Runze, Kurinsky, Noah, Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali, Wills, Lise, Ganjam, Suhas, Mahapatra, Rupak, Mirabolfathi, Nader, Nebolsky, Brian, Pinckney, H. Douglas, and Platt, Mark. Single electron–hole pair sensitive silicon detector with surface event discrimination.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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                    Hong, Ziqing, Ren, Runze, Kurinsky, Noah, Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali, Wills, Lise, Ganjam, Suhas, Mahapatra, Rupak, Mirabolfathi, Nader, Nebolsky, Brian, Pinckney, H. Douglas, & Platt, Mark. Single electron–hole pair sensitive silicon detector with surface event discrimination.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163757

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                    Hong, Ziqing, Ren, Runze, Kurinsky, Noah, Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali, Wills, Lise, Ganjam, Suhas, Mahapatra, Rupak, Mirabolfathi, Nader, Nebolsky, Brian, Pinckney, H. Douglas, and Platt, Mark. Fri .  
"Single electron–hole pair sensitive silicon detector with surface event discrimination".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163757.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1542181.

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@article{osti_1542181,

  title        = {Single electron–hole pair sensitive silicon detector with surface event discrimination},

  author       = {Hong, Ziqing and Ren, Runze and Kurinsky, Noah and Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali and Wills, Lise and Ganjam, Suhas and Mahapatra, Rupak and Mirabolfathi, Nader and Nebolsky, Brian and Pinckney, H. Douglas and Platt, Mark},

  abstractNote = {Here, we demonstrate single electron-hole pair resolution in a single-sided, contact-free 1 cm$^2$ by 1 mm thick Si crystal operated at 48 mK, with a baseline energy resolution of 3 eV. This crystal can be operated at voltages in excess of $\pm50$ V, resulting in a measured charge resolution of 0.06 electron-hole pairs. The high aluminum coverage ($\sim$70%) of this device allows for the discrimination of surface events and separation of events occurring near the center of the detector from those near the edge. We use this discrimination ability to show that dark events seen in previous detectors of a similar design are likely dominated by charge leakage along the side wall of the device. We saw only a small reduction in dark event rate with this biasing scheme, further suggesting that sidewall and edge-dominated processes are responsible for the majority of these events.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2020.163757},

  journal      = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},

  number       = ,

  volume       = 963,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2020},

  month        = {3}

}

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Fig. 1: A side view of the detector box mounted inside the ADR with the outer shielding removed. The inset picture shows the schematics of the detector used, together with the optical fiber and its field of illumination.

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