Setup and calibration of a particle detector based on charge coupled devices

TIOUCHICHINE, ELODIE; SOFO HARO, MIGUEL; BERTOU, XAVIER; ARNALDI, L.H.; GOMEZ BERISSO, MARIANO; BLOSTEIN, JUAN JERÓNIMO; TIFFENBERG, JAVIER; PEREZ, MARTÍN; SUÁREZ, SERGIO; FERNANDEZ MORONI, GUILLERMO

Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires

Conferencia; 2017 Argentine Conference of Micro-Nanoelectronics, Technology and Applications (CAMTA); 2017

Universidad Nacional de San Martin

Thick Charge Couple Devices have proven to be interesting particle detectors. The DAMIC and CONNIE collaborations are using this technology to search for the elastic scattering of a dark matter particle or a neutrino with a silicon nucleus, producing a nuclear recoil. The experiments reach unprecedented sensitivity at low energies (below 100 eV) by taking advantage of the low readout noise achieved by these devices. The present document describes an experimental setup at the Centro