The EXO-200 detector, part I: Detector design and construction
Instrumentation and Detectors
2015-06-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
EXO-200 is an experiment designed to search for double beta decay of Xe with a single-phase, liquid xenon detector. It uses an active mass of 110 kg of xenon enriched to 80.6% in the isotope 136 in an ultra-low background time projection chamber capable of simultaneous detection of ionization and scintillation. This paper describes the EXO-200 detector with particular attention to the most innovative aspects of the design that revolve around the reduction of backgrounds, the efficient use of the expensive isotopically enriched xenon, and the optimization of the energy resolution in a relatively large volume.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.2192,
title = {The EXO-200 detector, part I: Detector design and construction},
author = {M. Auger and D. J. Auty and P. S. Barbeau and L. Bartoszek and E. Baussan and E. Beauchamp and C. Benitez-Medina and M. Breidenbach and D. Chauhan and B. Cleveland and R. Conley and J. Cook and S. Cook and A. Coppens and W. Craddock and T. Daniels and C. G. Davis and J. Davis and R. deVoe and A. Dobi and M. J. Dolinski and M. Dunford and W. Fairbank and J. Farine and P. Fierlinger and D. Franco and G. Giroux and R. Gornea and K. Graham and G. Gratta and C. Hagemann and C. Hall and K. Hall and C. Hargrove and S. Herrin and J. Hodgson and M. Hughes and A. Karelin and L. J. Kaufman and J. Kirk and A. Kuchenkov and K. S. Kumar and D. S. Leonard and F. Leonard and F. LePort and D. Mackay and R. MacLellan and M. Marino and K. Merkle and B. Mong and M. Montero Díez and A. R. Müller and R. Neilson and A. Odian and K. O'Sullivan and C. Ouellet and A. Piepke and A. Pocar and C. Y. Prescott and K. Pushkin and A. Rivas and E. Rollin and P. C. Rowson and A. Sabourov and D. Sinclair and K. Skarpaas and S. Slutsky and V. Stekhanov and V. Strickland and M. Swift and D. Tosi and K. Twelker and J. -L. Vuilleumier and J. -M. Vuilleumier and T. Walton and M. Weber and U. Wichoski and J. Wodin and J. D. Wright and L. Yang and Y. -R. Yen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2192},
year = {2015}
}