The science and technology of liquid argon detectors

WM Bonivento, F Terranova - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Liquid argon detectors are ubiquitous in particle, astroparticle, and applied physics. They
reached an unprecedented level of maturity thanks to more than 20 years of research and …

Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector

R Acciarri, C Adams, R An, A Aparicio… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
P. Spentzouris, g J. Spitz, n J. St. John, e T. Strauss, g K. Sutton, f AM Szelc, l K. Taheri, g N.
Tagg, p K. Tatem, f J. Teng, g K. Terao, f M. Thomson, c C. Thorn, b J. Tillman, g M. Toups, g …

Gaseous and dual-phase time projection chambers for imaging rare processes

D González-Díaz, F Monrabal, S Murphy - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2018 - Elsevier
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Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics

V Chepel, H Araújo - Journal of Instrumentation, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current status of liquid noble gas radiation detectors with energy threshold in
the keV range, which are of interest for direct dark matter searches, measurement of …

Measurement of scintillation and ionization yield and scintillation pulse shape from nuclear recoils in liquid argon

H Cao, T Alexander, A Aprahamian, R Avetisyan… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We have measured the scintillation and ionization yield of recoiling nuclei in liquid argon as
a function of applied electric field by exposing a dual-phase liquid argon time projection …

Pulse-shape discrimination against low-energy Ar-39 beta decays in liquid argon with 4.5 tonne-years of DEAP-3600 data

P Adhikari, R Ajaj, M Alpízar-Venegas… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The DEAP-3600 detector searches for the scintillation signal from dark matter particles
scattering on a 3.3 tonne liquid argon target. The largest background comes from^ 39 Ar 39 …

The liquid argon in a testbeam (LArIAT) experiment

R Acciarri, C Adams, JA Asaadi… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The LArIAT liquid argon time projection chamber, placed in a tertiary beam of charged
particles at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility, has collected large samples of pions, muons …

Calorimetry for low-energy electrons using charge and light in liquid argon

W Foreman, R Acciarri, JA Asaadi, W Badgett… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Precise calorimetric reconstruction of 5–50 MeV electrons in liquid argon time projection
chambers (LArTPCs) will enable the study of astrophysical neutrinos in DUNE and could …

Enhancement of the X-Arapuca photon detection device for the DUNE experiment

C Brizzolari, S Brovelli, F Bruni, P Carniti… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), the VUV LAr luminescence
is collected by light trap devices named X-Arapuca, sizing∼(480× 93) mm 2. Six thousand of …

Wavelength shifters for applications in liquid argon detectors

M Kuźniak, AM Szelc - Instruments, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wavelength shifters and their applications for liquid argon detectors have been a subject of
extensive R&D procedures over the past decade. This work reviews the most recent results …