Characterization of the scintillation time response of liquid argon detectors for dark matter search

P. Agnes; S. De Cecco; A. Fan; G. Fiorillo; D. Franco; C. Galbiati; C. Giganti; G. Korga; M. Lebois; A. Mandarano; C. J. Martoff; L. Pagani; E. Pantic; A. Razeto; A. L. Renshaw; Q. Riffard; B. Schlitzer; A. Tonazzo; H. Wang; J. N. Wilson

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/16/11/P11026

Characterization of the scintillation time response of liquid argon detectors for dark matter search

P. Agnes, S. De Cecco, A. Fan, G. Fiorillo, D. Franco, C. Galbiati, C. Giganti, G. Korga, M. Lebois, A. Mandarano, C. J. Martoff, L. Pagani, E. Pantic, A. Razeto, A. L. Renshaw, Q. Riffard, B. Schlitzer, A. Tonazzo, H. Wang, J. N. Wilson

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The scintillation time response of liquid argon has a key role in the discrimination of electronic backgrounds in dark matter search experiments. However, its extraordinary rejection power can be affected by various detector effects such as the delayed light emission of TetraPhenyl Butadiene, the most commonly used wavelength shifter, and the electric drift field applied in Time Projection Chambers. In this work, we characterized the TetraPhenyl Butadiene delayed response and the dependence of the pulse shape discrimination on the electric field, exploiting the data acquired with the ARIS, a small-scale single-phase liquid argon detector exposed to monochromatic neutron and gamma sources at the ALTO facility of IJC Lab in Orsay.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	P11026
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	16
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/11/P11026
State	Published - Nov 2021

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Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics

Keywords

Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.)
Neutrino detectors
Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase)
Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

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Agnes, P., De Cecco, S., Fan, A., Fiorillo, G., Franco, D., Galbiati, C., Giganti, C., Korga, G., Lebois, M., Mandarano, A., Martoff, C. J., Pagani, L., Pantic, E., Razeto, A., Renshaw, A. L., Riffard, Q., Schlitzer, B., Tonazzo, A., Wang, H., & Wilson, J. N. (2021). Characterization of the scintillation time response of liquid argon detectors for dark matter search. Journal of Instrumentation, 16(11), Article P11026. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/11/P11026

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