Low Energy Noise Rejection with the Majorana Demonstrator
ORAL
Abstract
The \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator} is an array of P-type point contact germanium detectors enclosed in a low-background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Complementary to its search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of ${}^{76}$Ge are low energy rare event searches for dark matter and solar axions. In the initial run, 10 kg-y of data has been taken over a nearly two-year period. Though its detectors are routinely capable of sub-keV energy thresholds, electronics noise in the array presents a challenge to reliably discriminate physics signals from noise at the lowest energies. In this talk I discuss new noise rejection methods for the \textsc{Demonstrator}, employing maximum likelihood fits of each waveform and wavelet packet decomposition to maximize the detection potential for low energy physics searches.
*Based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, the Particle Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Programs of the National Science Foundation, and the Sanford Underground Research Facility.
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