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

Abstract

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.

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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)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1234368
Report Number(s):
BNL-111641-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221; KA2101020
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC00112704
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Instrumentation
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Noble liquid detectors; Time projection chambers; Neutrino detectors

Citation Formats

Acciarri, R., Adamowski, M., Artrip, D., Baller, B., Bromberg, C., Cavanna, F., B. Carls, Chen, H., Deptuch, G., Epprecht, L., Dharmapalan, R., Foreman, W., Hahn, A., Johnson, M., Jones, B. J.P., Junk, T., Lang, K., Lockwitz, S., Marchionni, A., Mauger, C., Montanari, C., Mufson, S., Nessi, M., Back, H. Olling, Petrillo, G., Pordes, S., Raaf, J., Rebel, B., Sinins, G., Soderberg, M., Spooner, N., Stancari, M., Strauss, T., Terao, K., Thorn, C., Tope, T., Toups, M., Urheim, J., Water, R. Van de, Wang, H., Wasserman, R., Weber, M., Whittington, D., and Yang, T. Summary of the Second Workshop on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/10/07/T07006.
Acciarri, R., Adamowski, M., Artrip, D., Baller, B., Bromberg, C., Cavanna, F., B. Carls, Chen, H., Deptuch, G., Epprecht, L., Dharmapalan, R., Foreman, W., Hahn, A., Johnson, M., Jones, B. J.P., Junk, T., Lang, K., Lockwitz, S., Marchionni, A., Mauger, C., Montanari, C., Mufson, S., Nessi, M., Back, H. Olling, Petrillo, G., Pordes, S., Raaf, J., Rebel, B., Sinins, G., Soderberg, M., Spooner, N., Stancari, M., Strauss, T., Terao, K., Thorn, C., Tope, T., Toups, M., Urheim, J., Water, R. Van de, Wang, H., Wasserman, R., Weber, M., Whittington, D., & Yang, T. Summary of the Second Workshop on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/07/T07006
Acciarri, R., Adamowski, M., Artrip, D., Baller, B., Bromberg, C., Cavanna, F., B. Carls, Chen, H., Deptuch, G., Epprecht, L., Dharmapalan, R., Foreman, W., Hahn, A., Johnson, M., Jones, B. J.P., Junk, T., Lang, K., Lockwitz, S., Marchionni, A., Mauger, C., Montanari, C., Mufson, S., Nessi, M., Back, H. Olling, Petrillo, G., Pordes, S., Raaf, J., Rebel, B., Sinins, G., Soderberg, M., Spooner, N., Stancari, M., Strauss, T., Terao, K., Thorn, C., Tope, T., Toups, M., Urheim, J., Water, R. Van de, Wang, H., Wasserman, R., Weber, M., Whittington, D., and Yang, T. 2015. "Summary of the Second Workshop on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/07/T07006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1234368.
@article{osti_1234368,
title = {Summary of the Second Workshop on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States},
author = {Acciarri, R. and Adamowski, M. and Artrip, D. and Baller, B. and Bromberg, C. and Cavanna, F. and B. Carls and Chen, H. and Deptuch, G. and Epprecht, L. and Dharmapalan, R. and Foreman, W. and Hahn, A. and Johnson, M. and Jones, B. J.P. and Junk, T. and Lang, K. and Lockwitz, S. and Marchionni, A. and Mauger, C. and Montanari, C. and Mufson, S. and Nessi, M. and Back, H. Olling and Petrillo, G. and Pordes, S. and Raaf, J. and Rebel, B. and Sinins, G. and Soderberg, M. and Spooner, N. and Stancari, M. and Strauss, T. and Terao, K. and Thorn, C. and Tope, T. and Toups, M. and Urheim, J. and Water, R. Van de and Wang, H. and Wasserman, R. and Weber, M. and Whittington, D. and Yang, T.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/10/07/T07006},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1234368}, journal = {Journal of Instrumentation},
issn = {1748-0221},
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volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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