PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 444 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Dark Matter Physics (DM)
"ISAI" Investigating Solar Axion by Iron-57 : the commissioning and the first run
Y. Onuki
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Pre-published on: August 18, 2023
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Abstract
ISAI, Investigating Solar Axion by Iron-57 is an experiment dedicated measurement of an interaction between the axion and nucleus without introducing the other interactions. An event-triggered
monolitic SOI X-ray pixel detector XRPIX, originally developing for the X-ray imaging spec-
troscopy for space observation satellite project, is applied for the Axion experiment with position
sensitive timing veto counters. We developed the readout using a rigid-flex circuit board which
enables us to separate the XRPIX and the most of peripheral electrical components that would
have non-negligible radioactivity without introducing any connectors. We surveyed radioactivity
of the detector inside of the shield using HPGe detector and confirmed a ∼ 10^{3} reduction with
respect to the previous our detector composed of a rigid circuit board. Two timing triggers of the
XRPIX and the veto counter can be recorded by a high time resolution DAQ system so that we will
reject backgrounds induced by cosmic-ray or environmental radiation at the offline analysis. We
constructed the detector with oxygen-free copper and lead shields inside of the climatic chamber.
We will present the experimental apparatus, the performance, the commissioning and the first run.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1389
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