暗物质物理实验用低温半导体探测器中可能产生的缺陷
Short remarks on possible production of defects in low temperature semiconductor detectors for dark matter physics experiments
摘要:
暗物质的性质仍然是一个悬而未决的问题,但有证据表明,宇宙中的大部分暗物质是非重子,非发光和非相对论性的,假设的弱相互作用大质量粒子(WIMP)是满足上述所有标准的候选者。为了最大限度地减少在搜索中识别WIMP相互作用的模糊性,在更多的实验中,同时测量两个不同的量:电离和来自闪烁信号的声子或光。硅和锗晶体用于某些实验。在本文中,我们讨论了由于WIMP相互作用在半导体中产生的缺陷,并估计其在能量平衡中的贡献。这种现象存在于所有温度下,在keV能量范围内是重要的,但在通常的实验信号分析中没有考虑到,并且可能在识别WIMP时引入错误。
英文摘要:
The nature of dark matter is still an open problem, but there is evidence that a large part of the dark matter in the universe is non-baryonic, non-luminous and non-relativistic and hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are candidates that satisfy all of the above criteria. In order to minimize the ambiguities in the identification of WIMPs' interactions in their search, in more experiments, two distinct quantities are simultaneously measured: the ionization and phonon or light from scintillation signals. Silicon and germanium crystals are used in some experiments. In this paper we discuss the production of defects in semiconductors due to WIMP interactions and estimate their contribution in the energy balance. This phenomenon is present at all temperatures, is important in the range of keV energies, but is not taken into consideration in the usual analysis of experimental signals and could introduce errors in identification for WIMPs.
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