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利用内部 $^{37}$Ar 源对 XENON1T 进行低能刻度

仪器与探测器 2023-07-12 v3 高能物理 - 实验

摘要

利用内部 37^{37}Ar 源对双相氙时间投影室 XENON1T 进行了低能电子反冲刻度。该刻度源具有 35 天的半衰期,并提供 2.82 keV 和 0.27 keV 两条单能谱线。在 2.82 keV 处测得的光子产额和电子产额分别为 (32.3±\pm0.3) photons/keV 和 (40.6±\pm0.5) electrons/keV,与其他测量及 NEST 预测一致。0.27 keV 处的电子产额亦被测得,为 (68.03.7+6.3^{+6.3}_{-3.7}) electrons/keV。37^{37}Ar 刻度证实探测器在接近探测阈值的能量区域中被充分理解,2.82 keV 谱线被重建于 (2.83±\pm0.02) keV,这进一步验证了用于解释 XENON1T 先前报道的低能电子反冲超出所采用的模型。刻度后利用低温蒸馏高效去除氩气的能力证明,37^{37}Ar 可被视为多吨级氙探测器的常规刻度源。

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@article{arxiv.2211.14191,
  title  = {Low-energy Calibration of XENON1T with an Internal $^{37}$Ar Source},
  author = {E. Aprile and K. Abe and F. Agostini and S. Ahmed Maouloud and M. Alfonsi and L. Althueser and B. Andrieu and E. Angelino and J. R. Angevaare and V. C. Antochi and D. Antón Martin and F. Arneodo and L. Baudis and A. L. Baxter and L. Bellagamba and R. Biondi and A. Bismark and A. Brown and S. Bruenner and G. Bruno and R. Budnik and T. K. Bui and C. Cai and C. Capelli and J. M. R. Cardoso and D. Cichon and A. P. Colijn and J. Conrad and J. J. Cuenca-García and J. P. Cussonneau and V. D'Andrea and M. P. Decowski and P. Di Gangi and S. Di Pede and S. Diglio and K. Eitel and A. Elykov and S. Farrell and A. D. Ferella and C. Ferrari and H. Fischer and W. Fulgione and P. Gaemers and R. Gaior and A. Gallo Rosso and M. Galloway and F. Gao and R. Glade-Beucke and L. Grandi and J. Grigat and M. Guida and R. Hammann and A. Higuera and C. Hils and L. Hoetzsch and J. Howlett and M. Iacovacci and Y. Itow and J. Jakob and F. Joerg and A. Joy and N. Kato and M. Kara and P. Kavrigin and S. Kazama and M. Kobayashi and G. Koltman and A. Kopec and F. Kuger and H. Landsman and R. F. Lang and L. Levinson and I. Li and S. Li and S. Liang and S. Lindemann and M. Lindner and K. Liu and J. Loizeau and F. Lombardi and J. Long and J. A. M. Lopes and Y. Ma and C. Macolino and J. Mahlstedt and A. Mancuso and L. Manenti and F. Marignetti and T. Marrodán Undagoitia and K. Martens and J. Masbou and D. Masson and E. Masson and S. Mastroianni and M. Messina and K. Miuchi and K. Mizukoshi and A. Molinario and S. Moriyama and K. Morå and Y. Mosbacher and M. Murra and J. Müller and K. Ni and U. Oberlack and B. Paetsch and J. Palacio and R. Peres and C. Peters and J. Pienaar and M. Pierre and V. Pizzella and G. Plante and J. Qi and J. Qin and D. Ramírez García and S. Reichard and A. Rocchetti and N. Rupp and L. Sanchez and P. Sanchez-Lucas and J. M. F. dos Santos and I. Sarnoff and G. Sartorelli and J. Schreiner and D. Schulte and P. Schulte and H. Schulze Eißing and M. Schumann and L. Scotto Lavina and M. Selvi and F. Semeria and P. Shagin and S. Shi and E. Shockley and M. Silva and H. Simgen and A. Takeda and P. -L. Tan and A. Terliuk and D. Thers and F. Toschi and G. Trinchero and C. Tunnell and F. Tönnies and K. Valerius and G. Volta and C. Weinheimer and M. Weiss and D. Wenz and C. Wittweg and T. Wolf and D. Xu and Z. Xu and M. Yamashita and L. Yang and J. Ye and L. Yuan and G. Zavattini and S. Zerbo and M. Zhong and T. Zhu and C. Geppert and J. Riemer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14191},
  year   = {2023}
}