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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 41: Astroparticle Physics II
HK 41.5: Talk
Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 18:00–18:15, S1/01 A02
Characterization of large volume CdZnTe detectors with a quad-grid structure for the COBRA experiment — •Katja Rohatsch for the COBRA collaboration — TU Dresden, Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, 01069 Dresden, D
The COBRA experiment uses room temperature semiconductor detectors made of Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride, which contains several double beta isotopes, to search for neutrinoless double beta-decay. To compensate for poor hole transport in CdZnTe the detectors are equipped with a coplanar grid (CPG) instead of a planar anode.
Currently, a demonstrator setup consisting of 64 1 cm3 CPG-detectors is in operation at the LNGS in Italy to prove the concept and to determine the long-term stability of the detectors and the instrumentation. For a future large scale experiment it is planned to use larger CdZnTe detectors with a volume of 6 cm3, because of the better surface-to-volume ratio and the higher full energy detection efficiency. This will also reduce the background contribution of surface contaminations.
Before the installation at the LNGS the new detector design is validated and studied in detail. This talk presents a laboratory experiment for the characterization with γ-radiation of 6 cm3 CdZnTe quad-grid detectors. The anode of such a detector is divided into four sub-CPGs. The characterization routine consists of the determination of the optimal working point and two-dimensional spatially resolved scans with a highly collimated γ-source.