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Scintillation light detection in the long-drift ProtoDUNE-DP liquid argon TPC

ProtoDUNE-DP is a 6x6x6 m3 liquid argon time-projection-chamber (LArTPC) operated at the Neutrino Platform at CERN in 2019-2020 as a prototype of the DUNE Far Detector. DUNE is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 C. Cuesta

Long-term operation of a double phase LAr LEM Time Projection Chamber with a simplified anode and extraction-grid design

We report on the successful operation of a double phase Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC) equipped with two dimensional projective anodes with dimensions 10$\times$10 cm$^2$, and with a maximum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Cantini , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , L. Periale , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , F. Sergiampietri , T. Viant , S. Wu

The Status of the MicroBooNE Experiment

The MicroBooNE experiment is an upcoming liquid argon TPC experiment which will pursue a program of short baseline neutrino physics in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, starting in early 2014. I give a description of the experiment and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-13 Benjamin J P Jones

Design and Implementation of the Cosmic Ray Tagger System for the ICARUS detector at FNAL

The ICARUS-T600 Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber is operating at Fermilab at shallow depth and thus exposed to a high flux of cosmic rays that can fake neutrino interactions. A cosmic ray tagging (CRT) system ($\sim$1100 m$^2$),…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-07 A. Aduszkiewicz , L. Bagby , B. Behera , P. Bernardini , S. Bertolucci , M. Betancourt , H. Budd , T. Boone , A. Campos , D. Casazza , V. Cicero , D. Cherdack , T. E. Coan , L. Degli Esposti , D. Di Ferdinando , L. Di Noto , C. Guandalini , M. Guerzoni , A. Heggestuen , C. Hilgenberg , R. Howell , M. Iliescu , G. Ingratta , T. Kim , U. Kose , G. Laurenti , C. Mariani , N. Mauri , K. S. McFarland , E. Montagna , A. Montanari , N. Moggi , M. Murphy , L. Pasqualini , V. Paolone , L. Patrizii , G. Pellegrini , V. Pia , F. Poppi , M. Pozzato , A. Ruggeri , P. Sala , P. Sapienza , A. Schukraft , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , A. Surdo , M. Tenti , V. Togo , N. Tosi , M. Vicenzi , R. J. Wilson , S. Zucchelli

Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE-Dual Phase (DP) is a 6x6x6 m$^3$ liquid argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-19 I. Gil-Botella

Analysis of the light production and propagation in the 4-tonne dual-phase demonstrator

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge experiment designed to perform neutrino science and proton decay searches. In particular, the far detector will consist of four 10-kton Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Chiara Lastoria

Test of a Liquid Argon TPC in a magnetic field and investigation of high temperature superconductors in liquid argon and nitrogen

Tests with cosmic ray muons of a small liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) in a magnetic field of 0.55 T are described. No effect of the magnetic field on the imaging properties were observed. In view of a future large,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-28 A. Badertscher , L. Knecht , M. Laffranchi , G. Natterer , A. Rubbia , Th. Strauss

First Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Charged Pion Production on Argon

We report on the first cross section measurements for charged current coherent pion production by neutrinos and antineutrinos on argon. These measurements are performed using the ArgoNeuT detector exposed to the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-04-06 R. Acciarri , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , B. Baller , T. Bolton , C. Bromberg , F. Cavanna , E. Church , D. Edmunds , A. Ereditato , S. Farooq , B. Fleming , H. Greenlee , R. Hatcher , G. Horton-Smith , C. James , E. Klein , K. Lang , P. Laurens , R. Mehdiyev , B. Page , O. Palamara , K. Partyka , G. Rameika , B. Rebel , E. Santos , M. Soderberg , J. Spitz , A. M. Szelc , M. Weber , T. Yang , G. P. Zeller

Photon Detection in the Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN)

The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) is being built at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A hexagonal time projection chamber (TPC) with a 1 m drift length will be constructed inside a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-11 Keith Rielage

Cosmic Ray Measurements Using Charge and Light Readout in a Pixelated Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

Liquid argon time projection chambers have emerged as a competitive technology for detecting solar neutrinos. The SoLAr collaboration was formed to explore argon detectors with pixelated light and charge readout, aiming for high detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-12 SoLAr Collaboration , N. Anfimov , A. Branca , J. Bürgi , L. Calivers , P. Carniti , E. Calvo , E. Cristaldo , C. Cuesta , F. Declich , R. Diurba , P. Dunne , D. A. Dwyer , J. Evans , A. C. Ezeribe , A. Gauch , I. Gil-Botella , C. Gotti , S. Greenberg , D. Guffanti , A. Karcher , J. Kunzmann , N. Lane , S. Manthey Corchado , N. McConkey , A. Minotti , A. Navrer-Agasson , S. Parsa , G. Pessina , G. Ruiz Ferreira , B. Russell , S. Söldner-Rembold , A. M. Szelc , A. Tapper , F. Terranova , C. Tognina , D. Trotta , S. Tufanli , H. Vieira de Souza , G. Vitti Stenico , A. Verdugo , M. Weber , I. Xiotidis

Status of ProtoDUNE Dual Phase

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a dual-site experiment for long baseline neutrino oscillation studies, and for neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. DUNE will comprise four 10 kton fiducial liquid argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-23 C. Cuesta

LArIAT: Worlds First Pion-Argon Cross-Section

The LArIAT experiment has performed the world's first measurement of the total charged-current pion cross-section on an argon target, using the repurposed ArgoNeuT detector in the Fermilab test beam. Presented here are the results of that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-04 Pip Hamilton

Exclusive Topologies reconstruction in LAr-TPC experiments: a Novel Approach for precise Neutrino-Nucleus Cross-Sections Measurements

The analysis and interpretation of the present and future neutrino oscillation experiments strongly rely on the quantitative understanding of neutrino and antineutrino interactions with nuclei in the "few GeV" energy range. With the advent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-25 O. Palamara , K. Partyka , F. Cavanna

High-performance Generic Neutrino Detection in a LArTPC near the Earth's Surface with the MicroBooNE Detector

Large Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are being increasingly adopted in neutrino oscillation experiments because of their superb imaging capabilities through the combination of both tracking and calorimetry in a fully active…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-18 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , R. Diurba , L. Domine , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. J. Evans , G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , E. Hall , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , N. Kamp , N. Kaneshige , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. LaZur , I. Lepetic , K. Li , Y. Li , B. R. Littlejohn , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , D. Porzio , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , H. E. Rogers , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

A 260-Liter Test Stand for Liquid Argon R&D

We describe the design and performance of a 260-liter liquid argon (LAr) cryogenic test stand for liquid argon detector research and development at BNL. The system uses gas-phase argon purification with continuous pump-free circulation, in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-23 Yichen Li , Aleksey Bolotnikov , Milind Diwan , Jay Hyun Jo , Steven Kettell , Steven Linden , Xin Qian , Matteo Vicenzi , Chao Zhang

Measurement of the ($\pi^-$, Ar) total hadronic cross section at the LArIAT experiment

We present the first measurement of the negative pion total hadronic cross section on argon, which we performed at the Liquid Argon In A Testbeam (LArIAT) experiment. All hadronic reaction channels, as well as hadronic elastic interactions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-05 E. Gramellini , J. Ho , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , M. Backfish , W. Badgett , B. Baller , V. Basque , O. Benevides Rodrigues , F. d. M. Blaszczyk , R. Bouabid , C. Bromberg , R. Carey , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , J. I. Cevallos Aleman , A. Chatterjee , P. Dedin , M. V. dos Santos , D. Edmunds , C. Escobar , J. Esquivel , J. J. Evans , A. Falcone , W. Flanagan , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Garcia-Gamez , D. Gastler , T. Ghosh , R. A. Gomes , R. Gran , D. R. Gratieri , P. Guzowski , A. Hahn , P. Hamilton , C. Hill , A. Holin , J. Hugon , E. Iwai , D. Jensen , R. A. Johnson , H. Kawai , E. Kearns , E. Kemp , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , M. Kordosky , P. Kryczynski , K. Lang , R. Linehan , S. Lockwitz , X. Luo , A. A. B. Machado , A. Marchionni , T. Maruyama , L. Mendes Santos , W. Metcalf , C. A. Moura , R. Nichol , I. Nutini , A. Olivier , O. Palamara , J. Paley , I. Parmaksiz , B. Passarelli Gelli , L. Paulucci , D. Phan , G. Pulliam , J . L. Raaf , B. Rebel , M. Reggiani Guzzo , M. Ross-Lonergan , M. Soares Nunes , D. W. Schmitz , E. Segreto , D. Shooltz , D. Smith , M. Soderberg , B. Soubasis , F. Spagliardi , J. M. St. John , M. Stancari , D. Stefan , M. Stephens , R. Sulej , A. M. Szelc , M. Tabata , D. Totani , M. Tzanov , D. Walker , H. Wenzel , Z. Williams , T. Yang , J. Yu , S. Zhang , J. Zhu

Study of ionization signals in a TPC filled with a mixture of liquid Argon and Nitrogen

In this paper we report on the evidence for ionization track signals from cosmic ray muons and Compton electrons in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with liquid Argon and doped with different fractions of Nitrogen. This study has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Ereditato , M. Hess , S. Janos , I. Kreslo , L. Martinez , M. Messina , U. Moser , B. Rossi , H. -U. Shuetz , M. Zeller

A Method to Determine the Electric Field of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Using a UV Laser System and its Application in MicroBooNE

Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are now a standard detector technology for making accelerator neutrino measurements, due to their high material density, precise tracking, and calorimetric capabilities. An electric field…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 MicroBooNE collaboration , C. Adams , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , M. Bass , F. Bay , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Carr , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. O. Cohen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , L. Domine , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. J. Evans , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , C. Hill , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , Y. J. Jwa , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , I. Lepetic , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , S. Marcocci , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , R. Murrells , D. Naples , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Pandey , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , S. Prince , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , L. Ren , L. Rochester , H. E. Rogers , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , R. T. Thornton , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , D. A. Wickremasinghe , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Argon Purification Studies and a Novel Liquid Argon Re-circulation System

Future giant liquid argon (LAr) time projection chambers (TPCs) require a purity of better than 0.1 parts per billion (ppb) to allow the ionised electrons to drift without significant capture by any electronegative impurities. We present a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Mavrokoridis , R. G. Calland , J. Coleman , P. K. Lightfoot , N. McCauley , K. J. McCormick , C. Touramanis

Augmented Signal Processing in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers with a Deep Neural Network

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) is an advanced neutrino detector technology widely used in recent and upcoming accelerator neutrino experiments. It features a low energy threshold and high spatial resolution that allow for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 Haiwang Yu , Mary Bishai , Wenqiang Gu , Meifeng Lin , Xin Qian , Yihui Ren , Andrea Scarpelli , Brett Viren , Hanyu Wei , Hongzhao Yu , Kwang Min Yu , Chao Zhang