Ereditato, Antonio; Hsu, Ching-Cheng; Janos, Stefan; Kreslo, Igor; Messina, Marcello; Rudolf von Rohr, Christoph; Rossi, Biagio; Strauss, Thomas; Weber, Michael; Zeller, Marcel (2013). Design and operation of ARGONTUBE: a 5 m long drift liquid argon TPC. Journal of instrumentation, 8(07), P07002-P07002. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07002
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The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) is a prime type of detector for future large-mass neutrino observatories and proton decay searches. In this paper we present the design and operation, as well as experimental results from ARGONTUBE, a LArTPC being operated at the AEC-LHEP, University of Bern. The main goal of this detector is to prove the feasibility of charge drift over very long distances in liquid argon. Many other aspects of the LArTPC technology are also investigated, such as a voltage multiplier to generate high voltage in liquid argon (Greinacher circuit), a cryogenic purification system and the application of multi-photon ionization of liquid argon by a UV laser. For the first time, tracks induced by cosmic muons and UVlaser beam pulses have been observed and studied at drift distances of up to 5 m, the longest reached to date.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) 10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ereditato, Antonio, Hsu, Ching-Cheng, Janos, Stefan, Kreslo, Igor, Messina, Marcello, Rudolf von Rohr, Christoph, Rossi, Biagio, Strauss, Thomas, Weber, Michele, Zeller, Marcel |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1748-0221 |
Publisher: |
Institute of Physics Publishing IOP |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Elena Kirillova |
Date Deposited: |
11 Sep 2014 08:56 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:32 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07002 |
Web of Science ID: |
000322572900013 |
ArXiv ID: |
1304.6961v2 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.48821 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/48821 |
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