Related papers: Performance of a modular ton-scale pixel-readout l…

Status of ICARUS

The ICARUS detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber. It provides three dimensional imaging and calorimetry of ionizing particles over a large volume, with high granularity. Its Physics program includes the study of atmospheric,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Javier Rico

The ArgoNeuT experiment

The ArgoNeuT experiment features a 175 liter Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) that was located upstream of the MINOS near detector in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The project is part of the LAr TPC development program…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-04 Roxanne Guenette

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

Review of Liquid Argon Detector Technologies in the Neutrino Sector

Liquid Argon (LAr) is one of the most widely used scintillators in particle detection, due to its low cost, high availability and excellent scintillation properties. A large number of experiments in the neutrino sector are based around…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-12 Krishanu Majumdar , Konstantinos Mavrokoridis

Computing for the DUNE Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment

This is a talk given at Computers in High Energy Physics in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia in November 2019. It is partially intended to explain the context of DUNE Computing for computing specialists. The DUNE collaboration consists…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Heidi Schellman

Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber: Recent R&D Results

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber collaboration recently reported a dark matter limit obtained with a 10 liter time projection chamber filled with CF4 gas. The 10 liter detector was capable of 2D tracking (perpendicular to the drift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. B. R. Battat , S. Ahlen , M. Chernicoff , C. Deaconu , D. Dujmic , A. Dushkin , P. Fisher , S. Henderson , A. Inglis , A. Kaboth , L. Kirsch , J. P. Lopez , J. Monroe , H. Ouyang , G. Sciolla , H. Tomita , H. Wellenstein

A pressurized argon gas TPC as DUNE near detector

DUNE is a new international experiment for neutrino physics and nucleon decay searches. It will consist of two detectors, about 1300 km apart, exposed to a multi-megawatt neutrino beam that will be built at Fermilab. One of the two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Martin-Albo

Measurement of the two-photon absorption cross-section of liquid argon with a time projection chamber

This paper reports on laser-induced multiphoton ionization at 266 nm of liquid argon in a time projection chamber (LAr TPC) detector. The electron signal produced by the laser beam is a formidable tool for the calibration and monitoring of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-12-21 I. Badhrees , A. Ereditato , I. Kreslo , M. Messina , U. Moser , B. Rossi , M. S. Weber , M. Zeller , C. Altucci , S. Amoruso , R. Bruzzese , R. Velotta

Design and commissioning of a 600 L Time Projection Chamber with Microbulk Micromegas

We report the design, construction, and initial commissioning results of a large high pressure gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with Micromegas modules for charge readout. The detector vessel has an inner volume of about 600 L and an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-02 Heng Lin , Denis Calvet , Lei Chen , Xun Chen , Theopisti Dafni , Changbo Fu , Javier Galan , Ke Han , Shouyang Hu , Yikai Huo , Igor G. Irastorza , Xiangdong Ji , Xiaomei Li , Xinglong Li , Jianglai Liu , Hector Mirallas , Damien Neyret , Kaixiang Ni , Hao Qiao , Xiangxiang Ren , Shaobo Wang , Siguang Wang , Yong Yang , Ying Yuan , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao

Design and Construction of the MicroBooNE Detector

This paper describes the design and construction of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber and associated systems. MicroBooNE is the first phase of the Short Baseline Neutrino program, located at Fermilab, and will utilize the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE Collaboration , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , R. An , A. Aparicio , S. Aponte , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , N. Ayoub , L. Bagby , B. Baller , R. Barger , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , K. Biery , M. Bishai , A. Blake , V. Bocean , D. Boehnlein , V. D. Bogert , T. Bolton , L. Bugel , C. Callahan , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , B. Carls , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , S. Chappa , H. Chen , K. Chen , C. Y. Chi , C. S. Chiu , E. Church , D. Cianci , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , J. Cornele , P. Cowan , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , G. Crutcher , C. Darve , R. Davis , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , S. Duffin , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , D. Erickson , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , S. Farooq , J. Farrell , D. Featherston , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , V. Genty , M. Geynisman , D. Goeldi , B. Goff , S. Gollapinni , N. Graf , E. Gramellini , J. Green , A. Greene , H. Greenlee , T. Griffin , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , A. Hackenburg , R. Haenni , P. Hamilton , P. Healey , O. Hen , E. Henderson , V Hewes , C. Hill , K. Hill , L. Himes , J. Ho , G. Horton-Smith , D. Huffman , C. M. Ignarra , C. James , E. James , J. Jan de Vries , W. Jaskierny , C. M. Jen , L. Jiang , B. Johnson , M. Johnson , R. A. Johnson , B. J. P. Jones , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , D. Kaleko , L. N. Kalousis , G. Karagiorgi , T. Katori , P. Kellogg , W. Ketchum , J. Kilmer , B. King , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , E. Klein , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. Krull , R. Kubinski , G. Lange , F. Lanni , A. Lathrop , A. Laube , W. M. Lee , Y. Li , D. Lissauer , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , G. Lukhanin , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , G. Mahler , I. Majoros , D. Makowiecki , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , D. Markley , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. T. McDonald , D. McKee , A. McLean , J. Mead , V. Meddage , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , W. Miner , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , Z. Moss , J. Mousseau , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , B. Norris , N. Norton , J. Nowak , M. OBoyle , T. Olszanowski , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , R. Pelkey , M. Phipps , S. Pordes , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , R. A Rameika , B. Rebel , R. Rechenmacher , S. Rescia , L. Rochester , C. Rudolf von Rohr , A. Ruga , B. Russell , R. Sanders , W. R. Sands , M. Sarychev , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , R. Scott , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , M. Shoun , J. Sinclair , W. Sippach , T. Smidt , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , M. Solano-Gonzalez , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , J. Sondericker , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , A. M. Szelc , K. Taheri , N. Tagg , K. Tatum , J. Teng , K. Terao , M. Thomson , C. Thorn , J. Tillman , M. Toups , Y. T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , M. Utes , R. G. Van de Water , C. Vendetta , S. Vergani , E. Voirin , J. Voirin , B. Viren , P. Watkins , M. Weber , T. Wester , J. Weston , D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , K. C. Wu , T. Yang , B. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang , M. Zuckerbrot

Measurement of photoelectron yield of the prototype for the CDEX-10 liquid argon detector

The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX) is a low background experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) designed to directly detect dark matter with a high-purity Germanium (HPGe) detector. In the second phase CDEX-10 with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-09 Qing-Hao Chen , Qian Yue , Jian-Ping Cheng , Ke-Jun Kang , Yuan-Jing Li , Shin-Ted Lin , Chang-Jian Tang , Hao-Yang Xing , Xun-Zhen Yu , Ming Zeng

First Observation of Low Energy Electron Neutrinos in a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

The capabilities of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) to reconstruct the spatial and calorimetric information of neutrino events have made them the detectors of choice in a number of experiments, specifically those looking to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-04-12 R. Acciarri , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , B. Baller , T. Bolton , C. Bromberg , F. Cavanna , E. Church , D. Edmunds , A. Ereditato , S. Farooq , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. Fleming , A. Hackenburg , G. Horton-Smith , C. James , K. Lang , X. Luo , R. Mehdiyev , B. Page , O. Palamara , B. Rebel , A. Schukraft , G. Scanavini , M. Soderberg , J. Spitz , A. M. Szelc , M. Weber , T. Yang , G. P. Zeller

Measurement of ambient radon progeny decay rates and energy spectra in liquid argon using the MicroBooNE detector

We report measurements of radon progeny in liquid argon within the MicroBooNE time projection chamber (LArTPC). The presence of specific radon daughters in MicroBooNE's 85 metric tons of active liquid argon bulk is probed with newly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-25 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , O. Alterkait , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , 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 , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , A. Devitt , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , 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 , H. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , J. Micallef , K. Miller , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. Moudgalya , 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 , 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 , I. Safa , 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 , 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

MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

The MiniCLEAN dark matter experiment will exploit a single-phase liquid-argon detector instrumented with 92 photomultiplier tubes placed in the cryogen temperature with 4-$\pi$ coverage of a 500 kg (150 kg) target (fiducial) mass. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-08 JuiJen , Wang

First testing of the Hamamatsu R5912-02Mod photomultiplier tube at 4-bar pressure and cryogenic temperature

The Hamamatsu R5912-02Mod photomultiplier tube (PMT) will be used in the DUNE dual-phase module, a 10-kton fiducial volume liquid-argon time-projection chamber, which is one of the four projected far-detector modules of the DUNE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-16 D. Belver , E. Calvo , C. Cuesta , A. Gallego-Ros , I. Gil-Botella , S. Jiménez , C. Lastoria , I. Martín , J. J. Martínez , C. Palomares , J. Soto-Otón , A. Verdugo

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

LBNF/DUNE Cryostats and Cryogenics Infrastructure for the DUNE Far Detector, Design Report

DUNE is an international experiment dedicated to addressing some of the questions at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics, including the mystifying preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe. The dual-site…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-15 LBNF/DUNE , : , M. Adamowski , J. Bremer , M. Delaney , R. Doubnik , D. Mladenov , D. Montanari , T. Nichols , A. Parchet , F. Resnati , I. Young

Predicting Transport Effects of Scintillation Light Signals in Large-Scale Liquid Argon Detectors

Liquid argon is being employed as a detector medium in neutrino physics and Dark Matter searches. A recent push to expand the applications of scintillation light in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber neutrino detectors has necessitated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-26 D. Garcia-Gamez , P. Green , A. M. Szelc

Large Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

We find that it is possible to increase sensitivity to low energy physics in a third or fourth DUNE-like module with careful controls over radiopurity and targeted modifications to a detector similar to the DUNE Far Detector design. In…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-05-11 T. Bezerra , A. Borkum , E. Church , C. Cuesta , Z. Djurcic , J. Genovesi , J. Haiston , C. M. Jackson , I. Lazanu , B. Monreal , S. Munson , C. Ortiz , M. Parvu , S. J. M. Peeters , D. Pershey , S. S. Poudel , J. Reichenbacher , R. Saldanha , K. Scholberg , G. Sinev , S. Westerdale , J. Zennamo

Xenon doping of Liquid Argon in ProtoDUNE Single Phase

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be the next generation long-baseline neutrino experiment. The far detector is designed as a complex of four LAr-TPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber) modules with 17 kt of liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-11 Niccolò Gallice