Nadine Foerster

Information

Institute: IEKP
Room: 108, Bld. 402 (CN)
Phone: +49 (0)721 608 - 24672
Email: nadine.foerster#kit.edu

Detector optimization based on studies of charge migration in the high purity germanium crystals of the EDELWEISS dark matter experiment

Date of defense: Feb 3rd, 2017

Identification of Dark Matter 2016, (July 18th-22nd), Sheffield:
Charge migration study of a massive cryogenic Ge detector for the detection of light dark matter using the Neganov-Luke effect, (talk)

3rd KSETA Plenary Workshop (Feb 22nd to 24th), Durbach:
Charge migration in Germanium detectors for Dark Matter search, (talk)

Stipend: iPROGRESS - Internship Program for Young Research Scientists, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM) (Oct 26 - Dec 2nd), Orsay, France: Special measurements with a prototype detector
EFFEKTE 2015 (Sep 15th), Karlsruhe: Auf der Suche nach Dunkler Materie, (public talk)
16th International Workshop on Low Temperature Physics (20th to 24th), Grenoble, France:
Investigation of a pulse shape based discrimination of surface interactions in high purity germanium crystals, (poster)
SASc-ISOLDE Spring Workshop (Apr 26th to May 1st), Bratislava, Slovakia
DPG Spring Meeting (Mar 9th to 13th), Wuppertal: Simulation des Ladungstransports in Germaniumkristallen des EDELWEISS-III Experiments im Vergleich mit experimentellen Ergebnissen, (talk)

42nd SLAC Summer Institute_ Shining Light on Dark Matter, Stanford, USA:
Charge migration in the germanium detectors of the EDELWEISS-III experiment (poster)
DPG Spring Meeting (Mar 17th to 21st), Frankfurt:
Charge migration in the germanium detectors of the EDELWEISS-III experiment (talk)

E. Armengaud et al., Measurement of the cosmogenic activation of germanium detectors in EDELWEISS-III, Astropart. Phys. (2017), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.03.006
N. Foerster, Detector optimization based on studies of charge migration in the high purity germanium crystals of the EDELWEISS dark matter experiment, PhD Thesis (2017), DOI:10.5445/IR/1000068031
L. Hehn et al., Improved EDELWEISS-III sensitivity for low-mass WIMPs using a profile likelihood approach, EPJ C (2016), DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4388-y
E. Armengaud et al., Constraints on low-mass WIMPs from the EDELWEISS-III dar matter search, JCAP (2016), DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/019
N. Foerster et al., Pulse-Shape Analysis of Ionization Signals in Cryogenic Ge Detectors for Dark Matter, J. Low Tep. Phys. (2016), DOI:10.1007/s10909-016-1532-x
E. Armengaud et al., Development and underground test of radiopure ZnMnO4 scintillating bolometers for the LUMINEU 0ν2β project, J. Inst. (2015), DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/10/05/P05007
A. Aab et al., Origin of atmospheric aerosols at the Pierre-Auger-Observatory using studies of air mass trajectories in South America, Atmos. Res. (2014), DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.05.021
C. Pies et al., maXs: Microcalorimeter Arrays for High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy at GSI/FAIR, J. Low Temp. Phys. (2012), DOI: 10.1007/s10909-012-0557-z

Dec 2014 to Feb 2015: Supervision of Bachlor student
WS 2014/2015: Modern Experimental Physics II (solid state physics) , Tutor
SS 2014: Physikalisches Fortgeschrittenen-Praktikum:
Gamma Winkelkorrelation and Neutronendiffusion
WS 2013/2014: Physikalisches Fortgeschrittenen-Praktikum:
Gamma Winkelkorrelation and Neutronendiffusion