1吨ArDM液氩暗物质探测器光读出系统的首批结果
仪器与探测器
2010-12-06 v2
摘要
ArDM-1t是下一代WIMP探测器的原型，它通过测量1吨液氩靶中核反冲产生的闪烁光和电离电荷来工作。其目标是达到30 keVr的最小反冲能量以探测反冲核。本文描述了实验概念，并展示了在CERN地面首次于ArDM中测试的光探测系统的结果。使用一组初步且不完整的光电倍增管（PMT），在零电场下测得的光产额在0.3-0.5 phe/keVee之间，具体取决于探测器内的位置，这证实了我们基于较小探测器装置的预期。
引用
@article{arxiv.1009.3641,
title = {First results on light readout from the 1-ton ArDM liquid argon detector for dark matter searches},
author = {C. Amsler and A. Badertscher and V. Boccone and A. Bueno and M. C. Carmona-Benitez and W. Creus and A. Curioni and M. Daniel and E. J. Dawe and U. Degunda and A. Gendotti and L. Epprecht and S. Horikawa and L. Kaufmann and L. Knecht and M. Laffranchi and C. Lazzaro and P. K. Lightfoot and D. Lussi and J. Lozano and A. Marchionni and K. Mavrokoridis and A. Melgarejo and P. Mijakowski and G. Natterer and S. Navas-Concha and P. Otyugova and M. dePrado and P. Przewlocki and C. Regenfus and F. Resnati and M. Robinson and J. Rochet and L. Romero and E. Rondio and A. Rubbia and L. Scotto-Lavina and N. J. C. Spooner and T. Strauss and J. Ulbricht and T. Viant},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3641},
year = {2010}
}
备注
14 pages, 10 figures, v2 accepted for publication in JINST