Energy loss due to defect formation from 206Pb recoils in SuperCDMS germanium detectors
2018
The Super
Cryogenic Dark Matter Searchexperiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory studied energy loss associated with defect formation in
germaniumcrystals at mK temperatures using in situ ^(210)Pb sources. We examine the spectrum of ^(206)Pb nuclear recoils near its expected 10^3 keV endpoint energy and determine an energy loss of (6:08 ± 0:18)%, which we attribute to defect formation. From this result and using TRIM simulations, we extract the first experimentally determined average displacement
threshold energyof 19.7^(+0.6)_(−0.5) eV for
germanium. This has implications for the analysis thresholds of future
germanium-based dark matter searches.
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