Measurement of Scintillation and Ionization Yield and Scintillation Pulse Shape from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon

Cao, H.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092007

Title: Measurement of Scintillation and Ionization Yield and Scintillation Pulse Shape from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon

Journal Article · Tue May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092007· OSTI ID:1226279

Cao, H. ^[1]

Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). et al.

We have measured the scintillation and ionization yield of recoiling nuclei in liquid argon as a function of applied electric field by exposing a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) to a low energy pulsed narrow band neutron beam produced at the Notre Dame Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics. Liquid scintillation counters were arranged to detect and identify neutrons scattered in the TPC and to select the energy of the recoiling nuclei. We report measurements of the scintillation yields for nuclear recoils with energies from 10.3 to 57.3 keV and for median applied electric fields from 0 to 970 V / cm . For the ionization yields, we report measurements from 16.9 to 57.3 keV and for electric fields from 96.4 to 486 V / cm . We also report the observation of an anticorrelation between scintillation and ionization from nuclear recoils, which is similar to the anticorrelation between scintillation and ionization from electron recoils. Assuming that the energy loss partitions into excitons and ion pairs from 83 m Kr internal conversion electrons is comparable to that from ²⁰⁷ Bi conversion electrons, we obtained the numbers of excitons ( N _ex ) and ion pairs ( N _i ) and their ratio ( N _ex / N _i) produced by nuclear recoils from 16.9 to 57.3 keV. Motivated by arguments suggesting direction sensitivity in LAr-TPC signals due to columnar recombination, a comparison of the light and charge yield of recoils parallel and perpendicular to the applied electric field is presented for the first time.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: SCENE Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1226279

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1182833; OSTI ID: 1378529

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-14-204-AE-E; LLNL-JRNL-737375; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1406.4825

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 91, Issue 09; ISSN 1550-7998

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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