Measurement of the ion fraction and mobility of 218Po produced in 222Rn decays in liquid argon

P. Agnes; I. F.M. Albuquerque; T. Alexander; A. K. Alton; M. Ave; H. O. Back; G. Batignani; K. Biery; V. Bocci; G. Bonfini; W. M. Bonivento; B. Bottino; S. Bussino; M. Cadeddu; M. Cadoni; F. Calaprice; A. Caminata; N. Canci; A. Candela; M. Caravati; M. Cariello; M. Carlini; M. Carpinelli; S. Catalanotti; V. Cataudella; P. Cavalcante; S. Cavuoti; A. Chepurnov; C. Cicalò; A. G. Cocco; G. Covone; D. D'Angelo; S. Davini; A. De Candia; S. De Cecco; M. De Deo; G. De Filippis; G. De Rosa; A. V. Derbin; A. Devoto; F. Di Eusanio; M. D'Incecco; G. Di Pietro; C. Dionisi; M. Downing; D. D'Urso; E. Edkins; A. Empl; G. Fiorillo; K. Fomenko; D. Franco; F. Gabriele; C. Galbiati; C. Ghiano; S. Giagu; C. Giganti; G. K. Giovanetti; O. Gorchakov; A. M. Goretti; F. Granato; A. Grobov; M. Gromov; M. Guan; Y. Guardincerri; M. Gulino; B. R. Hackett; K. Herner; B. Hosseini; D. Hughes; P. Humble; E. V. Hungerford; Al Ianni; An Ianni; V. Ippolito; T. N. Johnson; K. Keeter; C. L. Kendziora; I. Kochanek; G. Koh; D. Korablev; G. Korga; A. Kubankin; M. Kuss; M. La Commara; M. Lai; X. Li; M. Lissia; G. Longo; A. A. Machado; I. N. Machulin; A. Mandarano; L. Mapelli; S. M. Mari; J. Maricic; C. J. Martoff; A. Messina; P. D. Meyers; R. Milincic; A. Monte; M. Morrocchi; V. N. Muratova; P. Musico; A. Navrer Agasson; A. O. Nozdrina; A. Oleinik; M. Orsini; F. Ortica; L. Pagani; M. Pallavicini; L. Pandola; E. Pantic; E. Paoloni; K. Pelczar; N. Pelliccia; E. Picciau; A. Pocar; S. Pordes; S. S. Poudel; H. Qian; F. Ragusa; M. Razeti; A. Razeto; A. L. Renshaw; M. Rescigno; Q. Riffard; A. Romani; B. Rossi; N. Rossi; D. Sablone; O. Samoylov; W. Sands; S. Sanfilippo; C. Savarese; B. Schlitzer; E. Segreto; D. A. Semenov; A. Shchagin; A. Sheshukov; P. N. Singh; M. D. Skorokhvatov; O. Smirnov; A. Sotnikov; C. Stanford; S. Stracka; Y. Suvorov; R. Tartaglia; G. Testera; A. Tonazzo; P. Trinchese; E. V. Unzhakov; M. Verducci; A. Vishneva; R. B. Vogelaar; M. Wada; T. J. Waldrop; H. Wang; Y. Wang; A. W. Watson; S. Westerdale; M. M. Wojcik; X. Xiang; X. Xiao; C. Yang; Z. Ye; C. Zhu; G. Zuzel

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/14/11/P11018

Measurement of the ion fraction and mobility of ²¹⁸Po produced in ²²²Rn decays in liquid argon

P. Agnes, I. F.M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander, A. K. Alton, M. Ave, H. O. Back, G. Batignani, K. Biery, V. Bocci, G. Bonfini, W. M. Bonivento, B. Bottino, S. Bussino, M. Cadeddu, M. Cadoni, F. Calaprice, A. Caminata, N. Canci, A. Candela, M. CaravatiM. Cariello, M. Carlini, M. Carpinelli, S. Catalanotti, V. Cataudella, P. Cavalcante, S. Cavuoti, A. Chepurnov, C. Cicalò, A. G. Cocco, G. Covone, D. D'Angelo, S. Davini, A. De Candia, S. De Cecco, M. De Deo, G. De Filippis, G. De Rosa, A. V. Derbin, A. Devoto, F. Di Eusanio, M. D'Incecco, G. Di Pietro, C. Dionisi, M. Downing, D. D'Urso, E. Edkins, A. Empl, G. Fiorillo, K. Fomenko, D. Franco, F. Gabriele, C. Galbiati, C. Ghiano, S. Giagu, C. Giganti, G. K. Giovanetti, O. Gorchakov, A. M. Goretti, F. Granato, A. Grobov, M. Gromov, M. Guan, Y. Guardincerri, M. Gulino, B. R. Hackett, K. Herner, B. Hosseini, D. Hughes, P. Humble, E. V. Hungerford, Al Ianni, An Ianni, V. Ippolito, T. N. Johnson, K. Keeter, C. L. Kendziora, I. Kochanek, G. Koh, D. Korablev, G. Korga, A. Kubankin, M. Kuss, M. La Commara, M. Lai, X. Li, M. Lissia, G. Longo, A. A. Machado, I. N. Machulin, A. Mandarano, L. Mapelli, S. M. Mari, J. Maricic, C. J. Martoff, A. Messina, P. D. Meyers, R. Milincic, A. Monte, M. Morrocchi, V. N. Muratova, P. Musico, A. Navrer Agasson, A. O. Nozdrina, A. Oleinik, M. Orsini, F. Ortica, L. Pagani, M. Pallavicini, L. Pandola, E. Pantic, E. Paoloni, K. Pelczar, N. Pelliccia, E. Picciau, A. Pocar, S. Pordes, S. S. Poudel, H. Qian, F. Ragusa, M. Razeti, A. Razeto, A. L. Renshaw, M. Rescigno, Q. Riffard, A. Romani, B. Rossi, N. Rossi, D. Sablone, O. Samoylov, W. Sands, S. Sanfilippo, C. Savarese, B. Schlitzer, E. Segreto, D. A. Semenov, A. Shchagin, A. Sheshukov, P. N. Singh, M. D. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, C. Stanford, S. Stracka, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, A. Tonazzo, P. Trinchese, E. V. Unzhakov, M. Verducci, A. Vishneva, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Wada, T. J. Waldrop, H. Wang, Y. Wang, A. W. Watson, S. Westerdale, M. M. Wojcik, X. Xiang, X. Xiao, C. Yang, Z. Ye, C. Zhu, G. Zuzel

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Abstract

We report measurements of the charged daughter fraction of ²¹⁸Po as a result of the ²²²Rn alpha decay, and the mobility of ²¹⁸Po⁺ ions, using radon-polonium coincidences from the ²³⁸U chain identified in 532 live-days of DarkSide-50 WIMP-search data. The fraction of ²¹⁸Po that is charged is found to be 0.37 ± 0.03 and the mobility of ²¹⁸Po⁺ is (8.6 ± 0.1) × 10^{−4 cm} _Vs2.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	P11018
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	4
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/11/P11018
State	Published - Nov 14 2019

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Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics

Keywords

Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.)
Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase)
Time projection chambers

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Agnes, P., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Ave, M., Back, H. O., Batignani, G., Biery, K., Bocci, V., Bonfini, G., Bonivento, W. M., Bottino, B., Bussino, S., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Calaprice, F., Caminata, A., Canci, N., Candela, A., ... Zuzel, G. (2019). Measurement of the ion fraction and mobility of ²¹⁸Po produced in ²²²Rn decays in liquid argon. Journal of Instrumentation, 4(11), Article P11018. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/11/P11018

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note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the US NSF (Grants PHY-0919363, PHY-1004072, PHY-1004054, PHY-1242585, PHY-1314483, PHY-1606912, PHY-1314507 and associated collaborative grants; grants PHY-1211308 and PHY-1455351), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the US DOE (Contract Nos. DE-FG02-91ER40671 and DE-AC02-07CH11359), the Russian RSF (Grant No 16-12-10369), and the Polish NCN (Grant UMO-2014/15/B/ST2/02561). We thank the staff of the Fermilab Particle Physics, Scientific and Core Computing Divisions for their support. We acknowledge the financial support from the UnivEarthS Labex program of Sorbonne Paris Cit{\'e} (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02), from S˜ ao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) grant (2016/09084-0), and from Foundation for Polish Science (grant No. TEAM/2016-2/17). We would also like to thank Brian Mong for insightful discussions about ion mobility analyses. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab",

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Measurement of the ion fraction and mobility of 218Po produced in 222Rn decays in liquid argon

AU - Agnes, P.

AU - Albuquerque, I. F.M.

AU - Alexander, T.

AU - Alton, A. K.

AU - Ave, M.

AU - Back, H. O.

AU - Batignani, G.

AU - Biery, K.

AU - Bocci, V.

AU - Bonfini, G.

AU - Bonivento, W. M.

AU - Bottino, B.

AU - Bussino, S.

AU - Cadeddu, M.

AU - Cadoni, M.

AU - Calaprice, F.

AU - Caminata, A.

AU - Canci, N.

AU - Candela, A.

AU - Caravati, M.

AU - Cariello, M.

AU - Carlini, M.

AU - Carpinelli, M.

AU - Catalanotti, S.

AU - Cataudella, V.

AU - Cavalcante, P.

AU - Cavuoti, S.

AU - Chepurnov, A.

AU - Cicalò, C.

AU - Cocco, A. G.

AU - Covone, G.

AU - D'Angelo, D.

AU - Davini, S.

AU - De Candia, A.

AU - De Cecco, S.

AU - De Deo, M.

AU - De Filippis, G.

AU - De Rosa, G.

AU - Derbin, A. V.

AU - Devoto, A.

AU - Di Eusanio, F.

AU - D'Incecco, M.

AU - Di Pietro, G.

AU - Dionisi, C.

AU - Downing, M.

AU - D'Urso, D.

AU - Edkins, E.

AU - Empl, A.

AU - Fiorillo, G.

AU - Fomenko, K.

AU - Franco, D.

AU - Gabriele, F.

AU - Galbiati, C.

AU - Ghiano, C.

AU - Giagu, S.

AU - Giganti, C.

AU - Giovanetti, G. K.

AU - Gorchakov, O.

AU - Goretti, A. M.

AU - Granato, F.

AU - Grobov, A.

AU - Gromov, M.

AU - Guan, M.

AU - Guardincerri, Y.

AU - Gulino, M.

AU - Hackett, B. R.

AU - Herner, K.

AU - Hosseini, B.

AU - Hughes, D.

AU - Humble, P.

AU - Hungerford, E. V.

AU - Ianni, Al

AU - Ianni, An

AU - Ippolito, V.

AU - Johnson, T. N.

AU - Keeter, K.

AU - Kendziora, C. L.

AU - Kochanek, I.

AU - Koh, G.

AU - Korablev, D.

AU - Korga, G.

AU - Kubankin, A.

AU - Kuss, M.

AU - La Commara, M.

AU - Lai, M.

AU - Li, X.

AU - Lissia, M.

AU - Longo, G.

AU - Machado, A. A.

AU - Machulin, I. N.

AU - Mandarano, A.

AU - Mapelli, L.

AU - Mari, S. M.

AU - Maricic, J.

AU - Martoff, C. J.

AU - Messina, A.

AU - Meyers, P. D.

AU - Milincic, R.

AU - Monte, A.

AU - Morrocchi, M.

AU - Muratova, V. N.

AU - Musico, P.

AU - Navrer Agasson, A.

AU - Nozdrina, A. O.

AU - Oleinik, A.

AU - Orsini, M.

AU - Ortica, F.

AU - Pagani, L.

AU - Pallavicini, M.

AU - Pandola, L.

AU - Pantic, E.

AU - Paoloni, E.

AU - Pelczar, K.

AU - Pelliccia, N.

AU - Picciau, E.

AU - Pocar, A.

AU - Pordes, S.

AU - Poudel, S. S.

AU - Qian, H.

AU - Ragusa, F.

AU - Razeti, M.

AU - Razeto, A.

AU - Renshaw, A. L.

AU - Rescigno, M.

AU - Riffard, Q.

AU - Romani, A.

AU - Rossi, B.

AU - Rossi, N.

AU - Sablone, D.

AU - Samoylov, O.

AU - Sands, W.

AU - Sanfilippo, S.

AU - Savarese, C.

AU - Schlitzer, B.

AU - Segreto, E.

AU - Semenov, D. A.

AU - Shchagin, A.

AU - Sheshukov, A.

AU - Singh, P. N.

AU - Skorokhvatov, M. D.

AU - Smirnov, O.

AU - Sotnikov, A.

AU - Stanford, C.

AU - Stracka, S.

AU - Suvorov, Y.

AU - Tartaglia, R.

AU - Testera, G.

AU - Tonazzo, A.

AU - Trinchese, P.

AU - Unzhakov, E. V.

AU - Verducci, M.

AU - Vishneva, A.

AU - Vogelaar, R. B.

AU - Wada, M.

AU - Waldrop, T. J.

AU - Wang, H.

AU - Wang, Y.

AU - Watson, A. W.

AU - Westerdale, S.

AU - Wojcik, M. M.

AU - Xiang, X.

AU - Xiao, X.

AU - Yang, C.

AU - Ye, Z.

AU - Zhu, C.

AU - Zuzel, G.

N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the US NSF (Grants PHY-0919363, PHY-1004072, PHY-1004054, PHY-1242585, PHY-1314483, PHY-1606912, PHY-1314507 and associated collaborative grants; grants PHY-1211308 and PHY-1455351), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the US DOE (Contract Nos. DE-FG02-91ER40671 and DE-AC02-07CH11359), the Russian RSF (Grant No 16-12-10369), and the Polish NCN (Grant UMO-2014/15/B/ST2/02561). We thank the staff of the Fermilab Particle Physics, Scientific and Core Computing Divisions for their support. We acknowledge the financial support from the UnivEarthS Labex program of Sorbonne Paris Cité (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02), from S˜ ao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) grant (2016/09084-0), and from Foundation for Polish Science (grant No. TEAM/2016-2/17). We would also like to thank Brian Mong for insightful discussions about ion mobility analyses. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab

PY - 2019/11/14

Y1 - 2019/11/14

N2 - We report measurements of the charged daughter fraction of 218Po as a result of the 222Rn alpha decay, and the mobility of 218Po+ ions, using radon-polonium coincidences from the 238U chain identified in 532 live-days of DarkSide-50 WIMP-search data. The fraction of 218Po that is charged is found to be 0.37 ± 0.03 and the mobility of 218Po+ is (8.6 ± 0.1) × 10−4 cm Vs2.

AB - We report measurements of the charged daughter fraction of 218Po as a result of the 222Rn alpha decay, and the mobility of 218Po+ ions, using radon-polonium coincidences from the 238U chain identified in 532 live-days of DarkSide-50 WIMP-search data. The fraction of 218Po that is charged is found to be 0.37 ± 0.03 and the mobility of 218Po+ is (8.6 ± 0.1) × 10−4 cm Vs2.

KW - Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.)

KW - Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase)

KW - Time projection chambers

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