A novel technique has been developed to build vessels for liquid xenon ionization detectors entirely out of ultra-clean fluoropolymer. We describe the advantages in terms of low radioactivity contamination, provide some details of the construction techniques, and show the energy resolution achieved with a prototype all-fluoropolymer ionization detector.
@article{arxiv.physics/0611183,
title = {A liquid xenon ionization chamber in an all-fluoropolymer vessel},
author = {EXO Collaboration and F. LePort and A. Pocar and L. Bartoszek and R. DeVoe and P. Fierlinger and B. Flatt and G. Gratta and M. Green and T. Koffas and M. Montero Diez and R. Neilson and K. O'Sullivan and S. Waldman and J. Wodin and D. Woisard and E. Baussan and M. Breidenbach and R. Conley and W. Fairbank and J. Farine and C. Hall and K. Hall and D. Hallman and C. Hargrove and J. Hodgson and S. Jeng and D. S. Leonard and D. Mackay and Y. Martin and A. Odian and L. Ounalli and A. Piepke and C. Y. Prescott and P. C. Rowson and K. Skarpaas and D. Schenker and D. Sinclair and V. Stekhanov and V. Strickland and C. Virtue and J. -L. Vuilleumier and J. -M. Vuilleumier and K. Wamba and P. Weber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0611183},
year = {2008}
}