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Preliminary test results of LAr prototype detector

WIMPs are a well-motivated galactic dark matter candidate. Liquid argon (LAr) is an attractive target for the direct detection of WIMPs. The LAr prototype detector is designed to study the technology and property of LAr detector. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-21 Pei-Xian Li , Meng-Yun Guan , Chang-Gen Yang , Peng Zhang , Jin-Chang Liu , Yong-Pen Zhang , Cong Guo , Yi Wang

First Operation of a Resistive Shell Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber -- A new Approach to Electric-Field Shaping

We present a new technology for the shaping of the electric field in Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) using a carbon-loaded polyimide foil. This technology allows for the minimisation of passive material near the active volume of the TPC and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-15 Roman Berner , Yifan Chen , Antonio Ereditato , Patrick P. Koller , Igor Kreslo , David Lorca , Thomas Mettler , Francesco Piastra , James R. Sinclair , Michael S. Weber , Ting Miao

Developing a single phase liquid argon detector with SiPM readout

Liquid argon is used as a target material in several current and planned experiments related to dark matter direct searching and neutrino detection. SiPM is becoming the standard for scintillator detectors because of its advantages over…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-03 L. Wang , Y. Lei , T. A. Wang , C. Guo , K. K. Zhao , X. H. Liang , S. B. Wang , Y. D. Chen

A compact Optical Liquid Argon Facility at Roma Tre

In this paper we present a compact test facility for the measurement of optical properties of liquid argon as scintillator. The setup is under preparation at Roma Tre and it has a volume of 40 L liquid argon, which is liquefied from argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-24 Hexi Shi , Valerio D'Andrea , Giuseppe Salamanna , Krzysztof Szczepaniec , Diego Tagnani

The scintillation of liquid argon

A spectroscopic study of liquid argon from the vacuum ultraviolet at 110 nm to 1000 nm is presented. Excitation was performed using continuous and pulsed 12 keV electron beams. The emission is dominated by the analogue of the so called 2nd…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-25 T. Heindl , T. Dandl , M. Hofmann , R. Krücken , L. Oberauer , W. Potzel , J. Wieser , A. Ulrich

Measurement of the attenuation length of argon scintillation light in the ArDM LAr TPC

We report on a measurement of the attenuation length for the scintillation light in the tonne size liquid argon target of the ArDM dark matter experiment. The data was recorded in the first underground operation of the experiment in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 ArDM Collaboration , J. Calvo , C. Cantini , P. Crivelli , M. Daniel , S. DiLuise , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Molina-Bueno , B. Montes , W. Mu , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , K. Ngyuen , L. Periale , Y. Quan , B. Radics , C. Regenfus , L. Romero , A. Rubbia , R. Santorelli , F. Sergiampietri , T. Viant , S. Wu

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

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

PMT Triggering and Readout for the MicroBooNE Experiment

This paper presents the proposed PMT readout and triggering system that will be used in the MicroBooNE LArTPC experiment. The triggering scheme has been designed to study beam neutrino events as well as fully characterize cosmic rays. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 David Kaleko

LArGe: Background suppression using liquid argon (LAr) scintillation for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay search with enriched germanium (Ge) detectors

Measurements with a bare p-type high purity germanium diode (HPGe) submerged in a 19 kg liquid argon (LAr) scintillation detector at MPIK Heidelberg are reported. The liquid argon--germanium system (LArGe) is operated as a 4$\pi$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Di Marco , P. Peiffer , S. Schönert

First demonstration of $\mathcal{O}(1\,\text{ns})$ timing resolution in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, which collected data from 2015 to 2021. MicroBooNE's liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is accompanied by a photon detection system…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-31 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , O. Alterkait , D. Andrade Aldana , J. Anthony , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , G. Barr , J. Barrow , V. Basque , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , J. Y. Book , L. Camilleri , Y. Cao , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , A. Devitt , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , O. G. Finnerud , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , W. Foreman , 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 , O. Hen , R. Hicks , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , Z. Imani , B. Irwin , R. Itay , C. James , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , M. B. Leibovitch , I. Lepetic , J. -Y. Li , K. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , J. Mousseau , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , I. Pophale , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolph von Rohr , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , W. Tang , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , N. Wright , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Precise 3D track reconstruction algorithm for the ICARUS T600 liquid argon time projection chamber detector

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors offer charged particle imaging capability with remarkable spatial resolution. Precise event reconstruction procedures are critical in order to fully exploit the potential of this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-03-26 M. Antonello , B. Baibussinov , P. Benetti , E. Calligarich , N. Canci , S. Centro , A. Cesana , K. Cieslik , D. B. Cline , A. G. Cocco , A. Dabrowska , D. Dequal , A. Dermenev , R. Dolfini , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , A. Guglielmi , M. Haranczyk , J. Holeczek , A. Ivashkin , J. Kisiel , I. Kochanek , J. Lagoda , S. Mania , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , C. Montanari , S. Otwinowski , A. Piazzoli , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Plonski , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , E. Segreto , F. Sergiampietri , D. Stefan , J. Stepaniak , R. Sulej , M. Szarska , M. Terrani , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , H. Wang , X. Yang , A. Zalewska , K. Zaremba

Demonstration and performance of an online data selection algorithm for liquid argon time projection chambers using MicroBooNE

The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that produces three-dimensional images of particle interactions using ionization charge collected by anode wire plane arrays and scintillation light collected by a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-12 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , B. Behera , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , V. Bhelande , A. Binau , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , A. Hergenhan , M. Harrison , S. Hawkins , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , A. Johnson , R. A. Johnson , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , A. Kelly , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , K. Kumar , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , S. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , N. Majeed , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , F. Martinez Lopez , M. G. Manuel Alves , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , B. McConnell , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. A. Hernandez Morquecho , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , L. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , L. Silva , E. L. Snider , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , L. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang , Y. Zhang

WARP: a WIMP double phase Argon detector

The WARP programme for dark matter search with a double phase argon detector is presented. In such a detector both excitation and ionization produced by an impinging particle are evaluated by the contemporary measurement of primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 R. Brunetti , E. Calligarich , M. Cambiaghi , F. Carbonara , F. Cavanna , A. Cocco , C. De Vecchi , R. Dolfini , A. Ereditato , N. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , L. Grandi , G. Mangano , A. Menegolli , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , M. Prata , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Roncadelli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , R. Santorelli , C. Vignoli

Scintillation and optical properties of xenon-doped liquid argon

Liquid argon (LAr) is a common choice as detection medium in particle physics and rare-event searches. Challenges of LAr scintillation light detection include its short emission wavelength, long scintillation time and short attenuation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-26 C. Vogl , M. Schwarz , X. Stribl , J. Grießing , P. Krause , S. Schönert

The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600

DEAP-3600 is a liquid-argon scintillation detector looking for dark matter. Scintillation events in the liquid argon (LAr) are registered by 255 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and pulseshape discrimination (PSD) is used to suppress…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-09 The DEAP collaboration , P. Adhikari , R. Ajaj , G. R. Araujoand M. Batygov , B. Beltran , C. E. Bina , M. G. Boulay , B. Broerman , J. F. Bueno , A. Butcher , B. Cai , M. Cárdenas-Montes , S. Cavuoti , Y. Chen , B. T. Cleveland , J. M. Corning , S. J. Daughertyand K. Dering , L. Doria , F. A. Duncan andM. Dunford , A. Erlandson , N. Fatemighomi , G. Fiorillo , A. Flower , R. J. Ford , R. Gagnon , D. Gallacher , E. A. Garcés , P. García Abia , S. Garg , P. Giampa , D. Goeldi , V. V. Golovko , P. Gorel , K. Graham , D. R. Grant , A. Grobov , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , P. J. Harvey , C. Hearns , A. Ilyasov , A. Joy , C. J. Jillings , O. Kamaev , G. Kaur , A. Kemp , I. Kochanek , M. Kuźniak , S. Langrock , F. La Zia , B. Lehnert , N. Levashko , X. Li , O. Litvinov , J. Lock , G. Longo , I. Machulin , P. Majewski , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , T. McGinn , J. B. McLaughlin , R. Mehdiyev , C. Mielnichuk , J. Monroe , P. Nadeau , C. Nantais , C. Ng , A. J. Noble , G. Oliviéro , C. Ouellet , S. Pal , P. Pasuthip , S. J. M. Peeters , V. Pesudo , M. -C. Piro , T. R. Pollmann , E. T. Rand , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , E. Sanchez García , T. Sánchez-Pastor , R. Santorelli , N. Seeburn , P. Skensved , B. Smith , N. J. T. Smith , T. Sonley , R. Stainforth , C. Stone , V. Strickland , B. Sur , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , L. Veloce , S. Viel , J. Walding , M. Waqar , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , J. Willis , A. Zuñiga-Reyes

A Large Ungated TPC with GEM Amplification

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is an ideal device for the detection of charged particle tracks in a large volume covering a solid angle of almost $4\pi$. The high density of hits on a given particle track facilitates the task of pattern…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Berger , M. Ball , L. Fabbietti , B. Ketzer , R. Arora , R. Beck , F. Böhmer , J. -C. Chen , F. Cusanno , S. Dørheim , J. Hehner , N. Herrmann , C. Höppner , D. Kaiser , M. Kis , V. Kleipa , I. Konorov , J. Kunkel , N. Kurz , Y. Leifels , P. Müllner , R. Münzer , S. Neubert , J. Rauch , C. J. Schmidt , R. Schmitz , D. Soyk , M. Vandenbroucke , B. Voss , D. Walther , J. Zmeskal

Demonstration and Comparison of Operation of Photomultiplier Tubes at Liquid Argon Temperature

Liquified noble gases are widely used as a target in direct Dark Matter searches. Signals from scintillation in the liquid, following energy deposition from the recoil nuclei scattered by Dark Matter particles (e.g. WIMPs), should be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Acciarri , M. Antonello , F. Boffelli , M. Cambiaghi , N. Canci , F. Cavanna , A. G. Cocco , N. Deniskina , F. Di Pompeo , G. Fiorillo , C. Galbiati , L. Grandi , P. Kryczynski , G. Meng , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , L. Pandola , F. Perfetto , G. B. Piano Mortari , F. Pietropaolo , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , E. Segreto , A. M. Szelc , A. Triossi , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , A. Zani

Development of a Time Projection Chamber Using Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM-TPC)

We developed a prototype time projection chamber using gas electron multipliers (GEM-TPC) for high energy heavy ion collision experiments. To investigate its performance, we conducted a beam test with 3 kinds of gases (Ar(90%)-CH4(10%),…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 S. X. Oda , H. Hamagaki , K. Ozawa , M. Inuzuka , T. Sakaguchi , T. Isobe , T. Gunji , Y. Morino , S. Saito , Y. L. Yamaguchi , S. Sawada , S. Yokkaichi

Design of Prototype Front-end Digital Module for Direct Dark Matter Detection based on LAr

Liquid argon (LAr) with a high light yield of approximately 40 photons per keV is an attractive target for the direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are well motivated galactic dark matter candidates. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 X. Zhu , Z. Shen , C. Feng , S. Liu , Q. An