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Title: Light Collection in Liquid Noble Gases

Abstract

Liquid noble gases are increasingly used as active detector materials in particle and nuclear physics. Applications include calorimeters and neutrino oscillation experiments as well as searches for neutrinoless double beta decay, direct dark matter, muon electron conversion, and the neutron electric dipole moment. One of the great advantages of liquid noble gases is their copious production of ultraviolet scintillation light, which contains information about event energy and particle type. I will review the scintillation properties of the various liquid noble gases and the means used to collect their scintillation light, including recent advances in photomultiplier technology and wavelength shifters.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States))
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1087604
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Multimedia
Resource Relation:
Conference: Fermilab Colloquia, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batvia, Illinois (United States), presented on May 29, 2013
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

McKinsey, Dan. Light Collection in Liquid Noble Gases. United States: N. p., 2013. Web.
McKinsey, Dan. Light Collection in Liquid Noble Gases. United States.
McKinsey, Dan. Wed . "Light Collection in Liquid Noble Gases". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1087604.
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year = {Wed May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
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