First Linearity and Stability Characterization for CZT Detection System in a e$^+$e$^-$ Collider Environment

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that CZT detectors exhibit excellent linearity and stability in a collider environment, enabling precise spectroscopic measurements and supporting their use in advanced particle physics research.

Contribution

It provides the first characterization of CZT detector linearity and stability in a collider setting, validating their suitability for high-rate physics experiments.

Findings

Good residuals and resolutions achieved in calibration

Calibrations with beam off are valid during beam on

Potential for CZT detectors in high-rate collider environments

Abstract

The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration built a new cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT, CdZnTe)-based X-ray detection system, used for the first time in the DA$\Phi$NE electron-positron collider at INFN-LNF. The aim of this work is to show that these detectors present optimal long- and short-term linearity and stability to perform precise spectroscopic measurements in a collider environment. The spectra used as references for calibration are reported, and the results about the linearity and stability studies are presented. It is also discussed and showed what is the proper function to describe all the effects that alter the Gaussian shape in semiconductors, particularly evident in the CZT case. Good residuals and resolutions were obtained for all the calibrations. In a test run with the source and the collider beam on, it was demonstrated that the calibrations made with beam off are optimal also when the beam is on, and the actual systematics in a physics run were estimated. These promising results show the potentialities of this detector in the high rate environment of a particle collider, and pave the way for the use of CZT detectors in kaonic atoms researches and in accelerators, with applications for particle and nuclear physics.