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Performances of a prototype point-contact germanium detector immersed in liquid nitrogen for light dark matter search

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The CDEX-10 experiment searches for light weakly interacting massive particles, a form of dark matter, at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, where approximately 10 kg of germanium detectors are arranged in an array and immersed in liquid nitrogen. Herein, we report on the experimental apparatus, detector characterization, and spectrum analysis of one prototype detector. Owing to the higher rise-time resolution of the CDEX-10 prototype detector as compared with CDEX-1B, we identified the origin of an observed category of extremely fast events. For data analysis of the CDEX-10 prototype detector, we introduced and applied an improved bulk/surface event discrimination method. The results of the new method were compared to those of the CDEX-1B spectrum. Both sets of results showed good consistency in the 0–12 keVee energy range, except for the 8.0 keV K-shell X-ray peak from the external copper.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Ministry of Education) and Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Hao Jiang, LiTao Yang, Qian Yue, KeJun Kang, JianPing Cheng, YuanJing Li, HaiPeng An, Zhi Deng, Hui Gong, JinWei Hu, QingDong Hu, LiPing Jia, JianMin Li, Jin Li, YuLan Li, ZhongZhi Liu, Hao Ma, JingLu Ma, WeiYou Tang, Yang Tian, Qing Wang, Yi Wang, YuCheng Wu, Tao Xue, Nan Yi, Ming Zeng & Zhi Zeng

  2. College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    JianPing Cheng, Bin Liao, YanDong Liu, YuanYuan Liu, TianXi Sun, GuangFu Wang & FengShou Zhang

  3. Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, China

    Henry Tsz-King Wong, M. Ağartioğlu, JingHan Chen, HauBin Li, FongKay Lin, B. Sevda, Vivek Sharma, Lakhwinder Singh, Monoj Kumar Singh & SongWei Yang

  4. Department of Physics, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, 35160, Turkey

    M. Ağartioğlu & B. Sevda

  5. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    HaiPeng An, JingLu Ma, Qing Wang & Yi Wang

  6. NUCTECH Company, Beijing, 100084, China

    JianPing Chang, Li He, Hong Li, Hui Pan & HaiJun Yu

  7. YaLong River Hydropower Development Company, Chengdu, 610051, China

    YunHua Chen, ManBin Shen, JiMin Wang, ShiYong Wu, JianFeng Yue, XiongHui Zeng, YunHua Zhang, JiFang Zhou & ZhongHua Zhu

  8. College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China

    Qiang Du, ShinTed Lin, ShuKui Liu, ChangJian Tang, HaoYang Xing & JingJun Zhu

  9. Department of Nuclear Physics, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, 102413, China

    HanXiong Huang, Xia Li, Jie Ren, XiChao Ruan & ZuYing Zhou

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    XueQian Li, Yin Xu, ChunXu Yu & MingGang Zhao

  11. Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India

    Vivek Sharma, Lakhwinder Singh & Monoj Kumar Singh

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Jiang, H., Yang, L., Yue, Q. et al. Performances of a prototype point-contact germanium detector immersed in liquid nitrogen for light dark matter search. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 62, 31012 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-018-8001-3

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