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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 28: Niederenergie Neutrinophysik II
T 28.8: Talk
Monday, March 9, 2015, 18:30–18:45, I.12.01 (HS 30)
Monte Carlo simulations for the optimisation of low-background Ge detector designs — •Janina Hakenmüller1, Gerd Heusser1, Matthias Laubenstein2, Werner Maneschg1, Jochen Schreiner1, Hardy Simgen1, Dominik Stolzenburg1, Herbert Strecker1, Marc Weber1, and Jonas Westernmann1 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany — 2Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Via G. Acitelli 22, 67100 Assergi L'Aquila, Italy
Monte Carlo simulations for the low-background Ge spectrometer Giove at the underground laboratory of MPI-K, Heidelberg, are presented. In order to reduce the cosmogenic background at the present shallow depth (15 m w.e.) the shielding of the spectrometer includes an active muon veto and a passive shielding (lead and borated PE layers). The achieved background suppression is comparable to Ge spectrometers operated in much greater depth.
The geometry of the detector and the shielding were implemented using the Geant4-based toolkit MaGe. The simulations were successfully optimised by determining the correct diode position and active volume. With the help of the validated Monte Carlo simulation the contribution of the single components to the overall background can be examined. This includes a comparison between simulated results and measurements with different fillings of the sample chamber.
Having reproduced the measured detector background in the simulation provides the possibility to improve the background by reverse engineering of the passive and active shield layers in the simulation.