Author:
,Augier C.,Baulieu G.,Belov V.,Bergé L.,Billard J.,Bres G.,Bret J. -. L.,Broniatowski A.,Calvo M.,Cazes A.,Chaize D.,Chala M.,Chapellier M.,Chaplinsky L.,Chemin G.,Chen R.,Colas J.,Cudmore E.,De Jesus M.,de Marcillac P.,Dumoulin L.,Exshaw O.,Ferriol S.,Figueroa-Feliciano E.,Filippini J.-B.,Formaggio J. A.,Fuard S.,Gascon J.,Giuliani A.,Goupy J.,Goy C.,Guerin C.,Guy E.,Harrington P.,Hertel S. A.,Heusch M.,Hong Z.,Ianigro J.-C.,Jin Y.,Juillard A.,Karaivanov D.,Kazarcev S.,Lamblin J.,Lattaud H.,Li M.,Lubashevskiy A.,Marnieros S.,Martini N.,Mayer D. W.,Minet J.,Monfardini A.,Mounier F.,Novati V.,Olivieri E.,Oriol C.,Mateo L. Ovalle,Patel P. K.,Perbet E.,Pinckney H. D.,Poda D. V.,Ponomarev D.,Rarbi F.,Real J.-S.,Redon T.,Reyes F. C.,Robert A.,Rozov S.,Rozova I.,Scorza S.,Schmidt B.,Shevchik Ye.,Soldner T.,Stachurska J.,Stutz A.,Vagneron L.,Van De Pontseele W.,Vezzu F.,Winslow L.,Yakushev E.,Zinatulina D.
Abstract
AbstractThe future Ricochet experiment aims to search for new physics in the electroweak sector by measuring the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering process from reactor antineutrinos with high precision down to the sub-100 eV nuclear recoil energy range. While the Ricochet collaboration is currently building the experimental setup at the reactor site, it is also finalizing the cryogenic detector arrays that will be integrated into the cryostat at the Institut Laue Langevin in early 2024. In this paper, we report on recent progress from the Ge cryogenic detector technology, called the CryoCube. More specifically, we present the first demonstration of a 30 eVee (electron equivalent) baseline ionization resolution (RMS) achieved with an early design of the detector assembly and its dedicated High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) based front-end electronics with a total input capacitance of about 40 pF. This represents an order of magnitude improvement over the best ionization resolutions obtained on similar phonon-and-ionization germanium cryogenic detectors from the EDELWEISS and SuperCDMS dark matter experiments, and a factor of three improvement compared to the first fully-cryogenic HEMT-based preamplifier coupled to a CDMS-II germanium detector with a total input capacitance of 250 pF. Additionally, we discuss the implications of these results in the context of the future Ricochet experiment and its expected background mitigation performance.
Funder
Institut des Origines de Lyon
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
European Research Council
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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