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通过地下晶体生长与探测器制备提升基于锗(Ge)的稀有事件物理实验的灵敏度

Enhancing Sensitivity in Ge-Based Rare-Event Physics Experiments through Underground Crystal Growth and Detector Fabrication

Dongming Mei

AI总结:

针对宇宙线产生的长寿命同位素本底限制锗基暗物质与无中微子双β衰变实验灵敏度的问题,提出将晶体生长和探测器制备移至地下的方案,以降低本底、提升下一代实验的发现潜力。

摘要:

宇宙线产生的长寿命同位素(如$^{3}$H、$^{55}$Fe、$^{60}$Co、$^{65}$Zn和$^{68}$Ge)作为本底事件源,给基于锗(Ge)的暗物质(DM)和无中微子双β衰变($0νββ$)实验带来了重大挑战。在暗物质研究中,尤其是针对低质量暗物质这一尚未充分探索的参数空间,研究人员正在开发具有极低能量阈值的新型探测器技术,以探测MeV量级的暗物质。然而,探测器材料内部由宇宙线产生的$^{3}$H、$^{55}$Fe、$^{65}$Zn和$^{68}$Ge等同位素成为主要本底,严重限制了这些探测的灵敏度。同样,探测$0νββ$的研究(尤其是在中微子正常质量等级情形下)要求对有效马约拉纳质量的灵敏度达到约1 meV。要实现这一灵敏度水平,必须严格抑制来自$^{60}$Co和$^{68}$Ge等同位素的本底信号,这些同位素是关键的探测限制因素。为了达到这些下一代实验的目标灵敏度,并充分释放其在低质量暗物质和$0νββ$研究中的发现潜力,将锗晶体生长和探测器制备转移至地下环境至关重要。该方法是大幅减少这些长寿命同位素产生的最有效策略,从而确保实现突破性发现所需的实验灵敏度。

英文摘要:

The cosmogenic production of long-lived isotopes such as $^{3}$H,$^{55}$Fe, $^{60}$Co, $^{65}$Zn, and $^{68}$Ge poses a significant challenge as a source of background events in Ge-based dark matter (DM) and neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0νββ$) experiments. In the pursuit of DM, particularly within the largely unexplored parameter space for low-mass DM, new detector technologies are being developed with extremely low-energy thresholds to detect MeV-scale DM. However, isotopes like $^{3}$H, $^{55}$Fe, $^{65}$Zn, and $^{68}$Ge, produced cosmogenically within the detector material, emerge as dominant backgrounds that severely limit sensitivity in these searches. Similarly, efforts to detect $0νββ$, especially under a neutrino normal mass hierarchy scenario, require a sensitivity to the effective Majorana mass of $\sim$1 meV. Achieving this level of sensitivity necessitates stringent suppression of background signals from isotopes such as $^{60}$Co and $^{68}$Ge, which impose critical detection limits. To reach the targeted sensitivity for these next-generation experiments and to unlock their full discovery potential for both low-mass DM and $0νββ$, relocating Ge crystal growth and detector fabrication to underground environments is crucial. This approach is the most effective strategy to significantly reduce the production of these long-lived isotopes, thereby ensuring the experimental sensitivity required for groundbreaking discoveries.

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