Measurement of the drift velocity and transverse diffusion of electrons in liquid xenon with the EXO-200 detector

Albert, J. B.; Barbeau, P. S.; Beck, D.; Belov, V.; Breidenbach, M.; Brunner, T.; Burenkov, A.; Cao, G. F.; Cen, W. R.; Chambers, C.; Cleveland, B.; Coon, M.; Craycraft, A.; Daniels, T.; Danilov, M.; Daugherty, S. J.; Daughhetee, J.; Davis, J.; Delaquis, S.; Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A.; DeVoe, R.; Didberidze, T.; Dilling, J.; Dolgolenko, A.; Dolinski, M. J.; Dunford, M.; Fairbank, W.; Farine, J.; Feyzbakhsh, S.; Fierlinger, P.; Fudenberg, D.; Gornea, R.; Graham, K.; Gratta, G.; Hall, C.; Hughes, M.; Jewell, M. J.; Johnson, A.; Johnson, T. N.; Johnston, S.; Karelin, A.; Kaufman, L. J.; Killick, R.; Koffas, T.; Kravitz, S.; Krücken, R.; Kuchenkov, A.; Kumar, K. S.; Lan, Y.; Leonard, D. S.; Licciardi, C.; Lin, Y. H.; MacLellan, R.; Marino, M. G.; Mong, B.; Moore, D.; Njoya, O.; Nelson, R.; Odian, A.; Ostrovskiy, I.; Piepke, A.; Pocar, A.; Prescott, C. Y.; Retière, F.; Rowson, P. C.; Russell, J. J.; Schubert, A.; Sinclair, D.; Smith, E.; Stekhanov, V.; Tarka, M.; Tolba, T.; Tsang, R.; Twelker, K.; Vuilleumier, J. -L.; Waite, A.; Walton, J.; Walton, T.; Weber, M.; Wen, L. J.; Wichoski, U.; Wood, J.; Yang, L.; Yen, Y. -R.; Zeldovich, O. Ya.; Zettlemoyer, J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025502

Title: Measurement of the drift velocity and transverse diffusion of electrons in liquid xenon with the EXO-200 detector

Journal Article · Tue Feb 14 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025502· OSTI ID:1353176

Albert, J. B.; Barbeau, P. S.; Beck, D.; Belov, V.; Breidenbach, M.; Brunner, T.; Burenkov, A.; Cao, G. F.; Cen, W. R.; Chambers, C.; Cleveland, B.; Coon, M.; Craycraft, A.; Daniels, T.; Danilov, M.; Daugherty, S. J.; Daughhetee, J.; Davis, J.; Delaquis, S.; Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A. more »

The EXO-200 Collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double β decay using a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber. This measurement relies on modeling the transport of charge deposits produced by interactions in the LXe to allow discrimination between signal and background events. Here we present measurements of the transverse diffusion constant and drift velocity of electrons at drift fields between 20 V/cm and 615 V/cm using EXO-200 data. At the operating field of 380 V/cm EXO-200 measures a drift velocity of 1.705+0.014 -0.010 mm/μs and a transverse diffusion coefficient of 55 ± 4 cm2/s.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) (Switzerland); Inst. for Basic Science (IBS) (Korea, Republic of); Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) (Russian Federation); German Research Foundation) (DFG) (Germany); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (China); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

Contributing Organization:: EXO-200 Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; NA0003180

OSTI ID:: 1353176

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1343784; OSTI ID: 1407957

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Vol. 95, Issue 2; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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