Ge detectors onboard the future INTEGRAL mission of ESA will be deteriorated by secondary neutrons. In the present work, flight model Ge detectors were degraded by accelerator-produced neutrons, and then annealed. The detector recovery was found very sensitive to the annealing temperature. Transients following a high-voltage cut-off were studied as well. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Albernhe, F., Borrel, V., Frabel, P., Vedrenne, G., Coszach, R., Denis, J.-M., & Leleux, P. (2002). Degradation and recovery of Ge detectors: tests prior to a space mission. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 492(1-2), 91-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01289-5 (Original work published 2002)