The optical properties of LXe in the vacuum ultra violet (VUV), determining the performance of a scintillation calorimeter, are discussed in detail. The available data, measured in a wider spectral region from visible to UV light, and in a large range of Xe densities, from gas to liquid, are examined. It is shown that this information can be used for deriving the LXe optical properties in the VUV. A comparison is made with the few direct measurements in LXe for VUV light resulting from the LXe excitation by ionizing particles. A useful relation is obtained which connects the Rayleigh scattering length to the refractive index in LXe.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0401072,
title = {Liquid Xe scintillation calorimetry and Xe optical properties},
author = {A. Baldini and C. Bemporad and F. Cei and T. Doke and M. Grassi and T. Haruyama and S. Mihara and T. Mori and D. Nicolò and H. Nishiguchi and W. Ootani and K. Ozone and A. Papa and R. Pazzi and R. Sawada and F. Sergiampietri and G. Signorelli and S. Suzuki and K. Terasawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0401072},
year = {2016}
}