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Anode-Coupled Readout for Light Collection in Liquid Argon TPCs

This paper will discuss a new method of signal read-out from photon detectors in ultra-large, underground liquid argon time projection chambers. In this design, the signal from the light collection system is coupled via capacitive plates to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-13 Z. Moss , M. Toups , L. Bugel , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad

First Demonstration of a Pixelated Charge Readout for Single-Phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

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

A New Concept for Kilotonne Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

We develop a novel approach for a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) concept suitable for deployment in kilotonne scale detectors, with a charge-readout system free from reconstruction ambiguities, and a robust TPC design that reduces…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-15 M. Auger , R. Berner , Y. Chen , A. Ereditato , D. Goeldi , P. P. Koller , I. Kreslo , D. Lorca , T. Mettler , F. Piastra , J. R. Sinclair , M. Weber , C. Wilkinson , M. Convery , L. Domine , F. Drielsma , R. Itay , D. H. Koh , H. A. Tanaka , K. Terao , P. Tsang , T. Usher , D. A. Dwyer , S. Kohn , P. Madigan , C. M. Marshall , A. Bross , J. Asaadi

The WA105-3x1x1 m3 dual phase LAr-TPC demonstrator

The dual phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) is the state-of-art technology for neutrino detection thanks to its superb 3D tracking and calorimetry performance. Its main feature is the charge amplification in gas argon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Sebastien Murphy

New read-out electronics for ICARUS-T600 liquid Argon TPC. Description, simulation and tests of the new front-end and ADC system

The ICARUS T600, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) detector mainly devoted to neutrino physics, underwent a major overhauling at CERN in 2016-2017, which included also a new design of the read-out electronics, in view of its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Bagby , B. Baibussinov , V. Bellini , M. Bonesini , A. Braggiotti , L. Castellani , S. Centro , T. Cervi , A. G. Cocco , F. Fabris , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , F. Fichera , D. Franciotti , G. Galet , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , R. Guida , W. Ketchum , S. Marchini , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , G. Menon , C. Montanari , M. Nessi , M. Nicoletto , R. Pedrotta , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , G. Rampazzo , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , A. Scaramelli , F. Sergiampietri , M. Spanu , M. Torti , F. Tortorici , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , A. Zani , P. G. Zatti

Operation of a LAr-TPC equipped with a multilayer LEM charge readout

A novel detector for the ionization signal in a single phase LAr-TPC, based on the adoption of a multilayer Large Electron Multiplier (LEM) replacing the traditional anodic wire arrays, has been experimented in the ICARINO test facility at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-28 B. Baibussinov , S. Centro , C. Farnese , A. Fava , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , G. Meng , F. Pietropaolo , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , K. Zatrimaylov

First operation of a double phase LAr Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber with a two-dimensional projective readout anode

We have previously reported on the construction and successful operation of the novel double phase Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

The low-noise operation of readout electronics in a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is critical to properly extract the distribution of ionization charge deposited on the wire planes of the TPC, especially for the induction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE collaboration , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , L. Bagby , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , B. Bullard , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , B. Carls , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , H. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , G. De Geronimo , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , A. A. Fadeeva , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , N. Graf , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , C. -M. Jen , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , D. Kaleko , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , A. Laube , S. Li , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , V. Meddage , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , S. Rescia , L. Rochester , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , K. Terao , M. Thomson , C. Thorn , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , L. Yates , B. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

ARIADNE -- A Novel Optical LArTPC: Technical Design Report and Initial Characterisation using a Secondary Beam from the CERN PS and Cosmic Muons

ARIADNE is a 1-ton (330 kg fiducial mass) dual-phase liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) featuring a novel optical readout. Four electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) cameras are mounted externally, and these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-04 D. Hollywood , K. Majumdar , K. Mavrokoridis , K. J. McCormick , B. Philippou , S. Powell , A. Roberts , N. A. Smith , G. Stavrakis , C. Touramanis , J. Vann

Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs II. Data/Simulation Comparison and Performance in MicroBooNE

The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) provides a large amount of detailed information in the form of fine-grained drifted ionization charge from particle traces. To fully utilize this information, the deposited…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE collaboration , C. Adams , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , 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 , R. Carr , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , H. Chen , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , M. Dolce , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , J. J. Evans , A. A. Fadeeva , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , Y. -J. Jwa , D. Kaleko , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , 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 , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , A. Mastbaum , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , 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 , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , 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 , 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 , B. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

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

Signal Processing in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

The MicroBooNE experiment is designed to observe interactions of neutrinos with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector from the on-axis Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) and off-axis Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-03 Jyoti Joshi , Xin Qian

LArPix: Demonstration of low-power 3D pixelated charge readout for liquid argon time projection chambers

We report the demonstration of a low-power pixelated readout system designed for three-dimensional ionization charge detection and digital readout of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Unambiguous 3D charge readout was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-12 D. A. Dwyer , M. Garcia-Sciveres , D. Gnani , C. Grace , S. Kohn , M. Kramer , A. Krieger , C. J. Lin , K. B. Luk , P. Madigan , C. Marshall , H. Steiner , T. Stezelberger

A Hybrid 3D/2D Field Response Calculation for Liquid Argon Detectors with PCB Based Anode Plane

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology is commonly utilized in neutrino detector designs. It enables detailed reconstruction of neutrino events with high spatial precision and low energy threshold. Its field response (FR)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 S. Martynenko , F. Pietropaolo , B. Viren , X. Qian , H. Chen , S. Gao , W. Gu , J. Jo , S. Kettell , Y. Li , H. Liu , N. Nayak , B. Yu , H. Yu , C. Zhang , U. Kose , F. Resnati , S. Tufanli , F. Boran , F. Dolek

Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors are ideally suited for studying neutrino interactions and probing the parameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. The ability to drift ionization particles over long distances…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-02-04 M. Soderberg

Charge and Light Production in the Charge Readout System of a Dual Phase LAr TPC

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

First operation and performance of a 200 lt double phase LAr LEM-TPC with a 40x76 cm^2 readout

In this paper we describe the design, construction, and operation of a first large area double-phase liquid argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). The detector has a maximum drift length of 60 cm and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , U. Degunda , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi G. Natterer , K. Nguyen , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

Performance of an optically read out time projection chamber with ultra-relativistic electrons

The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is an ideal candidate to finely study the charged particle ionization in a gaseous medium. Large volumes TPCs can be read out with a suitable number of channels offering a complete 3D reconstruction of an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-11 V. C. Antochi , E. Baracchini , L. Benussi , S. Bianco , C. Capoccia , M. Caponero , G. Cavoto , A. Cortez , I. A. Costa , E. Di Marco , G. D'Imperio , G. Dho , F. Iacoangeli , G Maccarrone , M. Marafini , G. Mazzitelli , A. Messina , R. A. N'obrega , A. Orlandi , E. Paoletti , L. Passamonti , F. Petrucci , D. Piccolo , D. Pierluigi , D. Pinci , F. Renga , F. Rosatelli , A. Russo , G. Saviano , S Tomassini , C. Voena

Performance study of a $3\times1\times1\mbox{ m}^3$ dual phase liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber exposed to cosmic rays

We report the results of the analyses of the cosmic ray data collected with a 4 tonne (3$\times$1$\times$1~m$^3$) active mass (volume) Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) operated in a dual-phase mode. We present a detailed study of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-19 WA105 collaboration

Ionization Electron Signal Processing in Single Phase LArTPCs I. Algorithm Description and Quantitative Evaluation with MicroBooNE Simulation

We describe the concept and procedure of drifted-charge extraction developed in the MicroBooNE experiment, a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This technique converts the raw digitized TPC waveform to the number of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE collaboration , C. Adams , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , L. Bagby , 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 , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , H. Chen , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , A. Diaz , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , J. J. Evans , A. A. Fadeeva , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , Y. -J. Jwa , D. Kaleko , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , 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 , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , A. Mastbaum , V. Meddage , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , 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 , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , 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 , C. Thorn , 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 , B. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang