2015: Improvement of the energy resolution via an optimized digital signal processing in GERDA Phase I

The European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, 2015 vol. 75 no. 6

Agostini M. et al. (GERDA Collaboration) M. Wójcik, G. Zuzel, K. Pelczar, K. Panas, M. Misiaszek, N. Frodyma, D. Borowicz

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3409-6

Abstract

An optimized digital shaping filter has been developed for the Gerda experiment which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge. The Gerda Phase I energy calibration data have been reprocessed and an average improvement of 0.3 keV in energy resolution (FWHM) corresponding to 10 % at the Q value for 0νββ decay in 76Ge is obtained. This is possible thanks to the enhanced low-frequency noise rejection of this Zero Area Cusp (ZAC) signal shaping filter.