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Title: Summary of the Second Workshop on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States

Journal Article · · Journal of Instrumentation
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Research Catalytics (United States)
  3. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  4. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  5. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  6. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
  7. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  8. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
  9. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  10. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
  11. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  12. National Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Pavia (Italy)
  13. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
  14. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  15. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  16. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
  17. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)
  18. Univ. of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
  19. Univ. of Bern (Switzerland)
  20. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  21. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  22. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
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The second workshop to discuss the development of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) in the United States was held at Fermilab on July 8-9, 2014. The workshop was organized under the auspices of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors, a body that was initiated by the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields. All presentations at the workshop were made in six topical plenary sessions: i) Argon Purity and Cryogenics, ii) TPC and High Voltage, iii) Electronics, Data Acquisition and Triggering, iv) Scintillation Light Detection, v) Calibration and Test Beams, and vi) Software. This document summarizes the current efforts in each of these areas. It primarily focuses on the work in the US, but also highlights work done elsewhere in the world.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1234368
Report Number(s):
BNL-111641-2015-JA; KA2101020
Journal Information:
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 10; ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 8 works
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