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First results from a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber in a Magnetic Field

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

Improved Limits on Millicharged Particles Using the ArgoNeuT Experiment at Fermilab

A search for millicharged particles, a simple extension of the standard model, has been performed with the ArgoNeuT detector exposed to the Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam at Fermilab. The ArgoNeuT Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-08-14 ArgoNeuT Collaboration , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , B. Baller , T. Bolton , C. Bromberg , F. Cavanna , D. Edmunds , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. Fleming , R. Harnik , C. James , I. Lepetic , B. R. Littlejohn , Z. Liu , X. Luo , O. Palamara , G. Scanavini , M. Soderberg , J. Spitz , A. M. Szelc , W. Wu , T. Yang

Stable operation with gain of a double phase Liquid Argon LEM-TPC with a 1 mm thick segmented LEM

In this paper we present results from a test of a small Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric device capable of charge amplification,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-28 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

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

Muon Beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Area

The intensities and profiles of the muon beam behind the beam dump of the Fermilab test beam area when the facility is running in the "pion" beam mode are measured and summarized in this note. This muon beam with momenta in the range 10 -…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-08-12 Dmitri Denisov , Valery Evdokimov , Strahinja Lukić , Predrag Ujić

Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

MicroBooNE is a near-surface liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) located at Fermilab. We measure the characterisation of muons originating from cosmic interactions in the atmosphere using both the charge collection and light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-14 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

Near-infrared scintillation of liquid argon: recent results obtained with the NIR facility at Fermilab

After a short review of previous attempts to observe and measure the near-infrared scintillation in liquid argon, we present new results obtained with NIR, a dedicated cryostat at the Fermilab Proton Assembly Building (PAB). The new results…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-22 C. O. Escobar , P. Rubinov , E. Tilly

Performance Of A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Exposed To The WANF Neutrino Beam

We present the results of the first exposure of a Liquid Argon TPC to a multi-GeV neutrino beam. The data have been collected with a 50 liters ICARUS-like chamber located between the CHORUS and NOMAD experiments at the CERN West Area…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Arneodo et al.

First Observation of Antiproton Annihilation At Rest on Argon in the LArIAT Experiment

We report the first observation and measurement of antiproton annihilation at rest on argon using the LArIAT experiment. Antiprotons from a charged particle test beam that come to rest inside LArIAT's liquid argon time projection chamber…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-21 V. Basque , R. Acciarri , J. Asaadi , M. Backfish , W. Badgett , F. Cavanna , W. Flanagan , W. Foreman , R. A. Gomes , E. Gramellini , M. A. Hernandez-Morquecho , J. Ho , E. Kearns , E. Kemp , M. King , T. Kobilarcik , P. Kryczynski , B. R. Littlejohn , A. Marchionni , C. A. Moura , J. L. Raaf , D. Schmitz , M. Soderberg , J. M. St. John , A. M. Szelc

Future liquid Argon detectors

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber offers an innovative technology for a new class of massive detectors for rare-event detection. It is a precise tracking device that allows three-dimensional spatial reconstruction with mm-scale…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Rubbia

The Yale liquid argon time projection chamber

In this paper we give a thorough description of a liquid argon time projection chamber designed, built and operated at Yale. We present results from a calibration run where cosmic rays have been observed in the detector, a first in the US.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-04-03 Alessandro Curioni , Bonnie T. Fleming , Mitchell Soderberg

The Mini-CAPTAIN Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

This manuscript describes the commissioning of the Mini-CAPTAIN liquid argon detector in a neutron beam at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), which led to a first measurement of high-energy neutron interactions in argon. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-19 CAPTAIN Collaboration , C. E. Taylor , B. Bhandari , J. Bian , K. Bilton , C. Callahan , J. Chaves , H. Chen , D. Cline , R. L. Cooper , D. L. Danielson , J. Danielson , N. Dokania , S. Elliot , S. Fernandes , S. Gardiner , G. Garvey , V. Gehman , F. Giuliani , S. Glavin , M. Gold , C. Grant , E. Guardincerri , T. Haines , A. Higuera , J. Y. Ji , R. Kadel , N. Kamp , A. Karlin , W. Ketchum , L. W. Koerner , D. Lee , K. Lee , Q. Liu , S. Locke , W. C. Louis , P. Madigan , A. Manalaysay , J. Maricic , E. Martin , M. J. Martinez , S. Martynenko , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , J. Medina , P. J. Medina , G. Mills , J. Mirabal-Martinez , A. Olivier , E. Pantic , B. Philipbar , C. Pitcher , V. Radeka , J. Ramsey , K. Rielage , M. Rosen , A. R. Sanchez , J. Shin , G. Sinnis , M. Smy , W. Sondheim , I. Stancu , C. Sterbenz , Y. Sun , R. Svoboda , A. Teymourian , C. Thorn , C. E. Tull , M. Tzanov , R. Van de Water , N. Walsh , H. Wang , Y. Wang , C. Yanagisawa , A. Yarritu , J. Yoo

Summary of the Second Workshop on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States

The second workshop to discuss the development of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) in the United States was held at Fermilab on July 8-9, 2014. The workshop was organized under the auspices of the Coordinating Panel for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-02 R. Acciarri , M. Adamowski , D. Artrip , B. Baller , C. Bromberg , F. Cavanna , B. Carls , H. Chen , G. Deptuch , L. Epprecht , R. Dharmapalan , W. Foreman , A. Hahn , M. Johnson , B. J. P. Jones , T. Junk , K. Lang , S. Lockwitz , A. Marchionni , C. Mauger , C. Montanari , S. Mufson , M. Nessi , H. Olling Back , G. Petrillo , S. Pordes , J. Raaf , B. Rebel , G. Sinins , M. Soderberg , N. Spooner , M. Stancari , T. Strauss , K. Terao , C. Thorn , T. Tope , M. Toups , J. Urheim , R. Van de Water , H. Wang , R. Wasserman , M. Weber , D. Whittington , T. Yang

First Constraints on Heavy QCD Axions with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using the ArgoNeuT Experiment

We present the results of a search for heavy QCD axions performed by the ArgoNeuT experiment at Fermilab. We search for heavy axions produced in the NuMI neutrino beam target and absorber decaying into dimuon pairs, which can be identified…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-03 ArgoNeuT Collaboration , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , B. Baller , V. Basque , F. Cavanna , R. T. Co , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. Fleming , P. Green , R. Harnik , K. J. Kelly , S. Kumar , K. Lang , I. Lepetic , Z. Liu , X. Luo , K. F. Lyu , O. Palamara , G. Scanavini , M. Soderberg , J. Spitz , A. M. Szelc , W. Wu , T. Yang

First Measurement of $\nu_{\mu}$ Charged-Current $\pi^{0}$ Production on Argon with a LArTPC

We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current single $\pi^{0}$ production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 ton active mass liquid argon time…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-18 MicroBooNE collaboration , C. Adams , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , M. Auger , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , A. Bhat , K. Bhattacharya , 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 , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , J. J. Evans , A. A. Fadeeva , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , 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 , A. Mastbaum , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Mistry , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Pandey , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , A. Rafique , L. Ren , L. Rochester , 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 , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , M. Thomson , R. T. Thornton , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , D. A. Wickremasinghe , K. Wierman , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

ArDM: a ton-scale LAr detector for direct Dark Matter searches

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 ArDM Collaboration , A. Marchionni , C. Amsler , A. Badertscher , V. Boccone , A. Bueno , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , J. Coleman , W. Creus , A. Curioni , M. Daniel , E. J. Dawe , U. Degunda , A. Gendotti , L. Epprecht , S. Horikawa , L. Kaufmann , L. Knecht , M. Laffranchi , C. Lazzaro , P. K. Lightfoot , D. Lussi , J. Lozano , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Melgarejo , P. Mijakowski , G. Natterer , S. Navas-Concha , P. Otyugova , M. de Prado , P. Przewlocki , C. Regenfus , F. Resnati , M. Robinson , J. Rochet , L. Romero , E. Rondio , A. Rubbia , L. Scotto-Lavina , N. J. C. Spooner , T. Strauss , C. Touramanis , J. Ulbricht , T. Viant

A tagged low-momentum kaon test-beam exposure with a 250L LAr TPC (J-PARC T32)

At the beginning of 2010, we presented at the J-PARC PAC an R$&$D program towards large (100 kton scale) liquid argon TPCs, suitable to investigate, in conjunction with the J-PARC neutrino beam, the possibility of CP violation in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-31 O. Araoka , A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , S. DiLuise , U. Degunda , L. Epprecht , L. Esposito , A. Gendotti , T. Hasegawa , S. Horikawa , K. Kasami , N. Kimura , L. Knecht , T. Kobayashi , C. Lazzaro , D. Lussi , M. Maki , A. Marchionni , T. Maruyama , A. Meregaglia , T. Mitani , Y. Nagasaka , J. Naganoma , H. Naito , S. Narita , G. Natterer , K. Nishikawa , A. Okamoto , H. Okamoto , F. Petrolo , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , C. Strabel , M. Tanaka , T. Viant , Y. Yamanoi , K. Yorita , M. Yoshioka

Millicharged Particles in Liquid Argon Neutrino Experiments

We investigate the potential of Liquid Argon (LAr) neutrino detectors to search for millicharged particles, a well-motivated extension of the standard model. Detectors located downstream of an intense proton beam that is striking a target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-02 Roni Harnik , Zhen Liu , Ornella Palamara

Properties of Charge Recombination in Liquid Argon

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

Current and Future Liquid Argon Neutrino Experiments

The liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector technology provides an opportunity for precision neutrino oscillation measurements, neutrino cross section measurements, and searches for rare processes, such as SuperNova neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-09 Georgia Karagiorgi