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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 225, 2020
ANIMMA 2019 – Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications
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| Article Number | 01006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Fundamental Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202022501006 | |
| Published online | 20 January 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202022501006
Read-out Electronics and Signal Processing in GERDA and Future Prospects
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila & INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso,
Assergi,
Italy
* Email: valerio.dandrea@lngs.infn.it
Published online: 20 January 2020
The GERDA experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge. The experiment is using 36 kg of high-purity germanium detectors, simultaneously as source and detector, deployed into ultra-pure cryogenic liquid argon. GERDA is one the leading experiment in the field, reporting the highest sensitivity on the half-life of 0νββ decay with 1.1·1026 yr, the lowest background index with 6·10−4 cts/(keV·kg·yr) and an excellent energy resolution of 0.12% (FWHM).
The search for the 0νββ decay of the isotope 76Ge will be continued in the next years by the LEGEND-200 experiment, that aims to reach a sensitivity up to 1027 yr using 200 kg of enriched HPGe detectors. The preparation of this experiment already started.
The basic concepts of the GERDA read-out electronics, obeying both the severe requirements of ultra high radio-purity and cryogenic operation, are summarized. For LEGEND-200 a new electronics design, including a separation of the preamplifier in two stages, has been already designed and realized: results from tests are presented.
Additionally, we will introduce the digital signal processing adopted for the energy reconstruction in GERDA and a new implementation of an optimum digital filter by means of the DPLMS method. This method are discussed and the first application to GERDA data are presented.
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