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Title: Analysis of 83mKr prompt scintillation signals in the PIXeY detector

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  3. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  4. Univ. of Connecticut, Groton, CT (United States)
  5. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Univ. of Connecticut, Groton, CT (United States)
  6. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Prompt scintillation signals from 83mKr calibration sources are a useful metric to calibrate the spatial variation of light collection efficiency and electric field magnitude of a two phase liquid-gas xenon time projection chamber. Because 83mKr decays in two steps, there are two prompt scintillation pulses for each calibration event, denoted S1a and S1b. We study the ratio of S1b to S1a signal sizes in the Particle Identification in Xenon at Yale (PIXeY) experiment and its dependence on the time separation between the two signals (Δ t), notably its increase at low Δ t. Finally, in PIXeY data, the Δ t dependence of S1b/S1a is observed to exhibit two exponential components: one with a time constant of 0.05 ± 0.02 μ s, which can be attributed to processing effects and pulse overlap and one with a time constant of 10.2 ± 2.2 μs that increases in amplitude with electric drift field, the origin of which is not yet understood.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; 2011-DN-007-ARI056-02; PHY-1312561; FG02-94ER40870
OSTI ID:
1616106
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 15, Issue 01; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 5 works
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