skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Volume IV. The DUNE far detector single-phase technology

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; more »; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ORCiD logo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ORCiD logo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ORCiD logo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ORCiD logo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ORCiD logo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; « less

The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventually decay -- these mysteries at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics are key to understanding the early evolution of our universe, its current state, and its eventual fate. DUNE is an international world-class experiment dedicated to addressing these questions as it searches for leptonic charge-parity symmetry violation, stands ready to capture supernova neutrino bursts, and seeks to observe nucleon decay as a signature of a grand unified theory underlying the standard model. Central to achieving DUNE's physics program is a far detector that combines the many tens-of-kiloton fiducial mass necessary for rare event searches with sub-centimeter spatial resolution in its ability to image those events, allowing identification of the physics signatures among the numerous backgrounds. In the single-phase liquid argon time-projection chamber (LArTPC) technology, ionization charges drift horizontally in the liquid argon under the influence of an electric field towards a vertical anode, where they are read out with fine granularity. A photon detection system supplements the TPC, directly enhancing physics capabilities for all three DUNE physics drivers and opening up prospects for further physics explorations. The DUNE far detector technical design report (TDR) describes the DUNE physics program and the technical designs of the single- and dual-phase DUNE liquid argon TPC far detector modules. Volume IV presents an overview of the basic operating principles of a single-phase LArTPC, followed by a description of the DUNE implementation. Each of the subsystems is described in detail, connecting the high-level design requirements and decisions to the overriding physics goals of DUNE.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Contributing Organization:
DUNE Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; 89233218CNA000001; SC0010504; SC0007859; SC0008475
OSTI ID:
1599306
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1726222; OSTI ID: 1779897; OSTI ID: 1819733; OSTI ID: 1838688
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-20-027-ND; FERMILAB-DESIGN-2020-04; arXiv:2002.03010; LA-UR-20-28763; oai:inspirehep.net:1779526; TRN: US2103448
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 15, Issue 08; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (54)

Design and operation of ARGONTUBE: a 5 m long drift liquid argon TPC journal July 2013
A power optimized 13-b 5 Msamples/s pipelined analog-to-digital converter in 1.2 μm CMOS journal March 1996
Light Detection System simulations for SBND journal September 2017
Application of Control System Studio for the NOνA Detector Control System. journal December 2012
Development of a camera casing suited for cryogenic and vacuum applications journal December 2013
Estimation of absolute photon yields in liquid argon and xenon for relativistic (1 MeV) electrons
  • Doke, Tadayoshi; Masuda, Kimiaki; Shibamura, Eido
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 291, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(90)90011-T
journal June 1990
The scintillation of liquid argon journal September 2010
Emanation and bulk fluorescence in liquid argon from tetraphenyl butadiene wavelength shifting coatings journal February 2019
A novel electrical method to measure wire tensions for time projection chambers
  • Garcia-Gamez, Diego; Basque, Vincent; Brooks, Thomas G.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 915 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.09.031
journal January 2019
Dynamical behavior of free electrons in the recombination process in liquid argon, krypton, and xenon journal October 1979
A 7–9 MeV isotopic gamma-ray source for detector testing
  • Rogers, Joel G.; Andreaco, Mark S.; Moisan, Christian
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 413, Issue 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9002(98)00097-7
journal August 1998
Measurement of longitudinal electron diffusion in liquid argon
  • Li, Yichen; Tsang, Thomas; Thorn, Craig
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 816 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.01.094
journal April 2016
The ArgoNeuT detector in the NuMI low-energy beam line at Fermilab journal October 2012
Time projection chambers for the T2K near detectors
  • Abgrall, N.; Andrieu, B.; Baron, P.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 637, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.02.036
journal May 2011
An architecture and an algorithm for fully digital correction of monolithic pipelined ADCs
  • Soenen, E. G.; Geiger, R. L.
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 42, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/82.372864
journal March 1995
Construction and assembly of the wire planes for the MicroBooNE Time Projection Chamber journal March 2017
Cryogenic Lifetime Studies of 130 nm and 65 nm nMOS Transistors for High-Energy Physics Experiments journal June 2015
Cryogenic characterization of LEDs for space application
  • Carron, Jerome; Philippon, Anne; How, Lip Sun
  • Sixteenth International Conference on Solid State Lighting and LED-based Illumination Systems https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272409
conference September 2017
Polyethylene naphthalate film as a wavelength shifter in liquid argon detectors journal March 2019
Low-temperature mobility measurements on CMOS devices journal January 1989
Domino ADC: A novel analog-to-digital converter architecture
  • Takhti, Mohammad; Sodagar, Amir M.; Lotfi, Reza
  • 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2010, Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537633
conference May 2010
Effect of ionization density on the time dependence of luminescence from liquid argon and xenon journal May 1983
Measurement of the specific activity of 39Ar in natural argon
  • Benetti, P.; Calaprice, F.; Calligarich, E.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 574, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.01.106
journal April 2007
Accelerating Deep Neural Networks for Real-time Data Selection for High-resolution Imaging Particle Detectors conference June 2019
LAr TPC Electronics CMOS Lifetime at 300 K and 77 K and Reliability Under Thermal Cycling journal December 2013
Measurement of the drift field in the ARGONTUBE LAr TPC with 266 nm pulsed laser beams journal November 2014
A compact ultra-clean system for deploying radioactive sources inside the KamLAND detector
  • Banks, T. I.; Freedman, S. J.; Wallig, J.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 769 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.068
journal January 2015
ENDF/B-VIII.0: The 8 th Major Release of the Nuclear Reaction Data Library with CIELO-project Cross Sections, New Standards and Thermal Scattering Data journal February 2018
Measurement of the neutron capture cross section on argon journal May 2019
Drift velocity of free electrons in liquid argon journal July 2000
Experimental observation of an extremely high electron lifetime with the ICARUS-T600 LAr-TPC journal December 2014
FELIX-Based Readout of the Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Detector journal July 2019
Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector journal February 2017
SNEWS: the SuperNova Early Warning System journal January 2004
Design, construction and tests of the ICARUS T600 detector
  • Amerio, S.; Amoruso, S.; Antonello, M.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 527, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.02.044
journal July 2004
Experimental study of electric breakdowns in liquid argon at centimeter scale journal April 2014
Front-End ASIC for a Liquid Argon TPC journal June 2011
Measurement of the two-photon absorption cross-section of liquid argon with a time projection chamber journal November 2010
artdaq : DAQ software development made simple journal October 2017
A study of electron recombination using highly ionizing particles in the ArgoNeuT Liquid Argon TPC journal August 2013
NUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultiplier Technologies Developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler journal January 2019
Liquid argon test of the ARAPUCA device journal August 2018
The DAQ for the Single-Phase DUNE Prototype at CERN journal July 2019
The MicroBooNE continuous readout stream for detection of supernova neutrinos journal September 2019
A prototype liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber for the study of UV laser multi-photonic ionization journal July 2009
Index of refraction, Rayleigh scattering length, and Sellmeier coefficients in solid and liquid argon and xenon
  • Grace, Emily; Butcher, Alistair; Monroe, Jocelyn
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 867 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.031
journal September 2017
First measurements with ARGONTUBE, a 5m long drift Liquid Argon TPC
  • Zeller, M.; Ereditato, A.; Haug, S.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 718 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.181
journal August 2013
A 20-liter test stand with gas purification for liquid argon research journal June 2016
The Liquid Argon Purity Demonstrator journal July 2014
A 10-bit 100-MS/s Reference-Free SAR ADC in 90 nm CMOS journal June 2010
Numerical characterization of the ARAPUCA: a new approach for LAr scintillation light detection journal July 2018
A steerable UV laser system for the calibration of liquid argon time projection chambers journal November 2014
On the electric breakdown in liquid argon at centimeter scale journal March 2016
IPbus: a flexible Ethernet-based control system for xTCA hardware journal February 2015

Similar Records

Volume I. Introduction to DUNE
Journal Article · Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Instrumentation · OSTI ID:1599306

Volume III. DUNE far detector technical coordination
Journal Article · Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Instrumentation · OSTI ID:1599306

Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II DUNE Physics
Journal Article · Fri Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2020 · TBD · OSTI ID:1599306