Development of a silicon drift detector array to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with the KATRIN experiment

D. Siegmann; F. Edzards; C. Bruch; M. Biassoni; M. Carminati; M. Descher; C. Fiorini; C. Forstner; A. Gavin; M. Gugiatti; R. Hiller; D. Hinz; T. Houdy; A. Huber; P. King; P. Lechner; S. Lichter; D. Mießner; A. Nava; A. Onillon; D. C. Radford; D. Spreng; M. Steidl; P. Trigilio; K. Urban; D. Vénos; J. Wolfb; S. Mertens

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Development of a silicon drift detector array to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with the KATRIN experiment

D. Siegmann
, F. Edzards
, C. Bruch
, M. Biassoni
, M. Carminati
, M. Descher
, C. Fiorini
, C. Forstner
, A. Gavin
, M. Gugiatti
, R. Hiller
, D. Hinz
, T. Houdy
, A. Huber
, P. King
, P. Lechner
, S. Lichter
, D. Mießner
, A. Nava
, A. Onillon

D. C. Radford, D. Spreng, M. Steidl, P. Trigilio, K. Urban, D. Vénos, J. Wolfb, S. Mertens

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Abstract

Sterile neutrinos in the keV mass range present a viable candidate for dark matter. They can be detected through single β -decay, where they cause small spectral distortions. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with high sensitivity. To achieve this, the KATRIN beamline will be equipped with a novel multi-pixel silicon drift detector focal plane array named TRISTAN. In this study, we present the performance of a TRISTAN detector module, a component of the eventual 9-module system. Our investigation encompasses spectroscopic aspects such as noise performance, energy resolution, linearity, and stability.

Original language	English
Article number	085202
Journal	Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume	51
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ad4bf8
State	Published - Aug 2024

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We acknowledge the support of Helmholtz Association (HGF), Ministry for Education and Research BMBF (05A23PMA, 05A23PX2, 05A23VK2, and 05A23WO6), the doctoral school KSETA at KIT, Helmholtz Initiative and Networking Fund (grant agreement W2/W3-118), Max Planck Research Group (MaxPlanck@TUM), and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (GRK 2149 and SFB-1258) in Germany; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (CANAM-LM2015056, LTT19005) in the Czech Republic; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy; the National Science, Research and Innovation Fund via the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation (grant B37G660014) in Thailand; and the Department of Energy through grants DE-FG02-97ER41020, DE-FG02-94ER40818, DE-SC0004036, DE-FG02-97ER41033, DE-FG02-97ER41041, DE-SC0011091 and DE-SC0019304 and the Federal Prime Agreement DE-AC02-05CH11231 in the United States. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 852845). We thank the computing cluster support at the Institute for Astroparticle Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Keywords

KATRIN experiment
dark matter
electron detector
silicon drift detector
sterile neutrino
x-ray detector

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Siegmann, D., Edzards, F., Bruch, C., Biassoni, M., Carminati, M., Descher, M., Fiorini, C., Forstner, C., Gavin, A., Gugiatti, M., Hiller, R., Hinz, D., Houdy, T., Huber, A., King, P., Lechner, P., Lichter, S., Mießner, D., Nava, A., ... Mertens, S. (2024). Development of a silicon drift detector array to search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with the KATRIN experiment. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 51(8), Article 085202. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ad4bf8

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