Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC
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Abed Abud, A.; García Gámez, Diego; Nicolás Arnaldos, Francisco Javier; Zamorano García, Bruno; The Dune CollaborationEditorial
Springer
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2022-07-16Referencia bibliográfica
Abud, A.A... [et al.]. Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC. Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 618 (2022). [https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10549-w]
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CERN CERN EP CERN BE CERN TE CERN EN; IT Departments for NP04/ProtoDUNE-SP; Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA) DE-AC02-07CH11359; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ); Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (FAPERJ) Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Goias (FAPEG) Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP); Canada Foundation for Innovation IPP, Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic Czech Republic Government; ERDF, European Union H2020-EU, European Union MSCA, European Union; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) French Atomic Energy Commission; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology European Commission; National Research Foundation of Korea; CAM, Spain La Caixa Foundation Junta de Andalucia-FEDER, Spain Spanish Government Xunta de Galicia; SERI, Switzerland Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK); Royal Society of London UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility DE-AC02-05CH11231Resumen
DUNEis a dual-site experiment for long-baseline
neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon
decay searches. ProtoDUNE Dual Phase (DP) is a
6×6×6m3 liquid argon time-projection-chamber (LArTPC)
that recorded cosmic-muon data at the CERN Neutrino Platform
in 2019–2020 as a prototype of the DUNE FarDetector.
Charged particles propagating through the LArTPC produce
ionization and scintillation light. The scintillation light signal
in these detectors can provide the trigger for non-beam
events. In addition, it adds precise timing capabilities and improves the calorimetry measurements. In ProtoDUNE-DP,
scintillation and electroluminescence light produced by cosmic
muons in the LArTPC is collected by photomultiplier
tubes placed up to 7m away from the ionizing track. In this
paper, the ProtoDUNE-DP photon detection system performance
is evaluated with a particular focus on the different
wavelength shifters, such as PEN and TPB, and the use of
Xe-doped LAr, considering its future use in giant LArTPCs.
The scintillation light production and propagation processes
are analyzed and a comparison of simulation to data is performed,
improving understanding of the liquid argon properties.