Performance of a cryogenic system prototype for the XENON1T Detector

Elena Aprile; Ran Budnik; Bin Choi; Hugo Contreras; Karl Giboni; Luke Goetzke; Rafael Lang; Kyungeun Lim; Antonio melgarejo; Petr Shagin

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/7/10/P10001

Performance of a cryogenic system prototype for the XENON1T Detector

Instrumentation and Detectors 2015-06-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Authors: Elena Aprile , Ran Budnik , Bin Choi , Hugo Contreras , Karl Giboni , Luke Goetzke , Rafael Lang , Kyungeun Lim , Antonio melgarejo , Petr Shagin

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Abstract

We have developed an efficient cryogenic system with heat exchange and associated gas purification system, as a prototype for the XENON1T experiment. The XENON1T detector will use about 3 ton of liquid xenon (LXe) at a temperature of 175K as target and detection medium for a dark matter search. In this paper we report results on the cryogenic system performance focusing on the dynamics of the gas circulation-purification through a heated getter, at flow rates above 50 Standard Liter per Minute (SLPM). A maximum flow of 114 SLPM has been achieved, and using two heat exchangers in parallel, a heat exchange efficiency better than 96% has been measured.

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cryogenics liquid argon detectors particle detector

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@article{arxiv.1208.2001,
  title  = {Performance of a cryogenic system prototype for the XENON1T Detector},
  author = {Elena Aprile and Ran Budnik and Bin Choi and Hugo Contreras and Karl Giboni and Luke Goetzke and Rafael Lang and Kyungeun Lim and Antonio melgarejo and Petr Shagin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2001},
  year   = {2015}
}

Performance of a cryogenic system prototype for the XENON1T Detector

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