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Title: ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the Majorana Demonstrator

Abstract

Imperfections in analog-to-digital conversion cannot be ignored when signal digitization requirements demand both wide dynamic range and high resolution, as is the case for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR 76Ge neutrinoless double beta decay search. Enabling the experiment's high-resolution spectral analysis and efficient pulse shape discrimination required careful measurement and correction of ADC nonlinearites. Here, a simple measurement protocol was developed that did not require sophisticated equipment or lengthy data taking campaigns. A slope-dependent hysteresis was observed and characterized. A correction applied to digitized waveforms prior to signal processing reduced the differential and integral nonlinearites by an order of magnitude, eliminating these as dominant contributions to the systematic energy uncertainty at the double-beta decay Q value.

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  1. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
  2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
  3. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
  4. National Research Center, “Kurchatov Institute” Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
  5. Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
  6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  7. Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC, USA
  8. Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  9. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, USA
  10. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
  11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
  12. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
  13. Physics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
  14. Department of Physics, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA
  15. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
  16. Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
  17. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
  18. Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Contributing Org.:
MAJORANA Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1834082
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1670120; OSTI ID: 1776758; OSTI ID: 1776779; OSTI ID: 1784114
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-20-21663
Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9499; TRN: US2300121
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-97ER41041; FG02-97ER41033; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725; AC05-76RL0130; AC02-76SF00515; FG02-97ER41020; SC0012612; SC0014445; SC0018060; LANLE9BW; MRI-0923142; PHY-1003399; PHY-1102292; PHY-1206314; PHY-1614611; PHY-1812409; PHY-1812356; 15-02-02919; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 68; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9499
Publisher:
IEEE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Germanium detectors; enriched 76-Ge; neutrinoless double beta decay; signal processing; Gamma-ray detectors; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics

Citation Formats

Abgrall, N., Allmond, J. M., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bos, B., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T. S., Campbell, C. M., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, Pinghan, Clark, M. L., Crawford, H. L., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Drobizhev, A., Edwins, D. W., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Haufe, C. R., Hegedus, R. J., Henning, R., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hoppe, E. W., Hostiuc, A., Kidd, M. F., Kim, I., Kouzes, R. T., Lopez, A. M., Lopez-Castano, J. M., Martin, E. L., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Myslik, J., Oli, T. K., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Poon, A. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N. W., Stortini, M. J., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yu, C. -H., Zhu, B. X., and Shanks, B. ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the Majorana Demonstrator. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1109/tns.2020.3043671.
Abgrall, N., Allmond, J. M., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bos, B., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T. S., Campbell, C. M., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, Pinghan, Clark, M. L., Crawford, H. L., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Drobizhev, A., Edwins, D. W., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Haufe, C. R., Hegedus, R. J., Henning, R., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hoppe, E. W., Hostiuc, A., Kidd, M. F., Kim, I., Kouzes, R. T., Lopez, A. M., Lopez-Castano, J. M., Martin, E. L., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Myslik, J., Oli, T. K., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Poon, A. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N. W., Stortini, M. J., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yu, C. -H., Zhu, B. X., & Shanks, B. ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the Majorana Demonstrator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2020.3043671
Abgrall, N., Allmond, J. M., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bos, B., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T. S., Campbell, C. M., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, Pinghan, Clark, M. L., Crawford, H. L., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Drobizhev, A., Edwins, D. W., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Haufe, C. R., Hegedus, R. J., Henning, R., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hoppe, E. W., Hostiuc, A., Kidd, M. F., Kim, I., Kouzes, R. T., Lopez, A. M., Lopez-Castano, J. M., Martin, E. L., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Myslik, J., Oli, T. K., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Poon, A. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N. W., Stortini, M. J., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yu, C. -H., Zhu, B. X., and Shanks, B. Wed . "ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the Majorana Demonstrator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2020.3043671. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1834082.
@article{osti_1834082,
title = {ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the Majorana Demonstrator},
author = {Abgrall, N. and Allmond, J. M. and Arnquist, I. J. and Avignone, F. T. and Barabash, A. S. and Barton, C. J. and Bertrand, F. E. and Bos, B. and Busch, M. and Buuck, M. and Caldwell, T. S. and Campbell, C. M. and Chan, Y. -D. and Christofferson, C. D. and Chu, Pinghan and Clark, M. L. and Crawford, H. L. and Cuesta, C. and Detwiler, J. A. and Drobizhev, A. and Edwins, D. W. and Efremenko, Yu and Ejiri, H. and Elliott, S. R. and Gilliss, T. and Giovanetti, G. K. and Green, M. P. and Gruszko, J. and Guinn, I. S. and Guiseppe, V. E. and Haufe, C. R. and Hegedus, R. J. and Henning, R. and Aguilar, D. Hervas and Hoppe, E. W. and Hostiuc, A. and Kidd, M. F. and Kim, I. and Kouzes, R. T. and Lopez, A. M. and Lopez-Castano, J. M. and Martin, E. L. and Martin, R. D. and Massarczyk, R. and Meijer, S. J. and Mertens, S. and Myslik, J. and Oli, T. K. and Othman, G. and Pettus, W. and Poon, A. P. and Radford, D. C. and Rager, J. and Reine, A. L. and Rielage, K. and Ruof, N. W. and Stortini, M. J. and Tedeschi, D. and Varner, R. L. and Vasilyev, S. and White, B. R. and Wilkerson, J. F. and Wiseman, C. and Xu, W. and Yu, C. -H. and Zhu, B. X. and Shanks, B.},
abstractNote = {Imperfections in analog-to-digital conversion cannot be ignored when signal digitization requirements demand both wide dynamic range and high resolution, as is the case for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR 76Ge neutrinoless double beta decay search. Enabling the experiment's high-resolution spectral analysis and efficient pulse shape discrimination required careful measurement and correction of ADC nonlinearites. Here, a simple measurement protocol was developed that did not require sophisticated equipment or lengthy data taking campaigns. A slope-dependent hysteresis was observed and characterized. A correction applied to digitized waveforms prior to signal processing reduced the differential and integral nonlinearites by an order of magnitude, eliminating these as dominant contributions to the systematic energy uncertainty at the double-beta decay Q value.},
doi = {10.1109/tns.2020.3043671},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science},
number = 3,
volume = 68,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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