Michael Homann
Technical University of Dortmund
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2014
M. Fritts; Jan Tebrügge; Jürgen Durst; J. Ebert; C. Gößling; T. Göpfert; Daniel Gehre; C. Hagner; N. Heidrich; Michael Homann; Tobias Köttig; Till Neddermann; C. Oldorf; Thomas Quante; S. Rajek; Oscar Reinecke; O. Schulz; J. Timm; B. Wonsak; K. Zuber
Abstract Events near the cathode and anode surfaces of a coplanar grid CdZnTe detector are identifiable by means of the interaction depth information encoded in the signal amplitudes. However, the amplitudes cannot be used to identify events near the lateral surfaces. In this paper a method is described to identify lateral surface events by means of their pulse shapes. Such identification allows for discrimination of surface alpha particle interactions from more penetrating forms of radiation, which is particularly important for rare event searches. The effectiveness of the presented technique in suppressing backgrounds due to alpha contamination in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the COBRA experiment is demonstrated.
