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In this paper we give a concise description of a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) developed at Yale, and present results from its first calibration run with cosmic rays.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Curioni , B. T. Fleming , M. Soderberg

We present a comprehensive comparison of the physics sensitivities of a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) and a Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) detector, considering their potential deployment as the fourth far detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Nishat Fiza , Suhyeon Kim , Emar Masaku , Mehedi Masud , Hokyeong Nam , Juseong Park , Yujin Park , Kim Siyeon

A novel liquid argon (LAr) purity monitor was developed with a sensitivity to electronegative impurities of the order of ppb (O$_2$ equivalent). Such a high purity is e.g. needed in a LAr drift chamber. The principle is to measure the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Badertscher , M. Laffranchi , A. Rubbia

The MicroBooNE detector, to be located on axis in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), consists of two main components: a large liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), and a…

To enhance the ionization yield of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPC) used in dark matter and neutrino experiments it was proposed the use of dopants in LAr, with ionization energies below the scintillation threshold of Ar.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-14 L. M. Ramos , A. F. V. Cortez , M. Kuźniak , A. Gnat , M. Kuźwa , G. Nieradka , T. Sworobowicz , S. Westerdale

For the future neutrino oscillation experiment DUNE, liquid argon time projections chambers with a fiducial mass of 10 kton each are foreseen. The dual phase concept is one of the two implementations considered, wherein electrons produced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-22 T. Lux

Scintillation light is used in liquid argon (LAr) neutrino detectors to provide a trigger signal, veto information against cosmic rays, and absolute event timing. In this work, we discuss additional opportunities offered by detectors with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-27 M. Sorel

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM-1t) experiment is a ton-scale liquid argon (LAr) double-phase time projection chamber designed for direct Dark Matter searches. Such a device allows to explore the low energy frontier in LAr with a charge imaging…

ALETHEIA is a newly established dark matter direct detection project that aims at hunting for low-mass WIMPs. TPB is widely implemented in liquid helium and argon experiments to shift VUV photons to visible light. We first report that we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-06 Jiangfeng Zhou , Zebang Ouyang , Junhui Liao , Zhuo Liang , Zhaohua Peng , Lei Zhang , Lifeng Zhang , Jian Zheng

Particle detectors based on liquid argon (LAr) have recently become recognized as an extremely attractive technology for the direct detection of dark matter as well as the measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-03 Cong Guo , Mengyun Guan , Xilei Sun , Weixing Xiong , Peng Zhang , Changgen yang

A small liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) was operated for the first time in a magnetic field of 0.55 Tesla. The imaging properties of the detector were not affected by the magnetic field. In a test run with cosmic rays a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Badertscher , M. Laffranchi , A. Meregaglia , A. Mueller , A. Rubbia

Liquid argon is an excellent medium for detecting particles, given its yields and transport properties of light and charge. The technology of liquid argon time projection chambers has reached its full maturity after four decades of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-03 Ettore Segreto

As liquid xenon TPCs increase in target mass while pursuing the direct detection of WIMP dark matter, the technical challenges arising due to their size call for new solutions and open the discussion on alternative detector concepts.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-14 Fabian Kuger , Julia Dierle , Horst Fischer , Marc Schumann , Francesco Toschi

The GERDA experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{76}$Ge in order to probe whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle and to shed light on the neutrino mass ordering. For investigating such a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-11 Nuno Barros , Alexander R. Domula , Björn Lehnert , Birgit Zatschler , Kai Zuber

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) have been selected for the future long-baseline Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). To allow LArTPCs to operate in the high-multiplicity near detector environment of DUNE, a new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-30 J. Asaadi , M. Auger , A. Ereditato , D. Goeldi , R. Haenni , U. Kose , I Kreslo , D. Lorca , M. Luethi , C. Rudolf Von Rohr , J. R. Sinclair , F. Stocker , C. Tognina , M. Weber

The ICARUS T600 LAr TPC is the far detector of the Short Baseline Program at FNAL. As it will have to work at shallow depth in the Booster Neutrino Beam, a large cosmic rays background ($\sim 11$ kHz) will be present. To reduce it, precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 M. Bonesini , R. Benocci , R. Bertoni , A. Falcone , R. Mazza , M. Torti , A. Menegolli , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella

We have measured the scintillation and ionization yield of recoiling nuclei in liquid argon as a function of applied electric field by exposing a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) to a low energy pulsed narrow band…

Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) have been proposed as neutrino detectors that combine both large sizes to maximize the number of neutrino interactions and detailed recording of the interaction. The readout of thousands of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-12 J. I. Crespo-Anadón

The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX) Collaboration will carry out a direct search for weakly interacting massive particles with germanium detectors. Liquid argon will be utilized as an anti-Compton and cooling material for the germanium…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 Ying-Shuai Du , Qian Yue , Yi-Bao Liu , Qing-Hao Chen , Jin LI , Jian-Ping Cheng , Ke-Jun Kang , Yuan-Jing Li , Yu-Lan Li , Hao Ma , Hao-Yang Xing , Xun-Zhen Yu , Zhi Zeng

The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is designing a new generation of low background, noble liquid bubble chamber experiments with sub-keV nuclear recoil threshold. These experiments combine the electronic recoil blindness…