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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References in corpus (9)

• The Liquid Argon Purity Demonstrator
• Pulse-shape discrimination and energy resolution of a liquid-argon scintillator with xenon doping
• The trigger system of the ICARUS experiment for the CNGS beam
• Experimental study of electric breakdowns in liquid argon at centimeter scale
• Liquid Argon Dielectric Breakdown Studies with the MicroBooNE Purification System
• First operation and drift field performance of a large area double phase LAr Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber with an immersed Greinacher high-voltage multiplier
• A method to suppress dielectric breakdowns in liquid argon ionization detectors for cathode to ground distances of several millimeters
• Testing of High Voltage Surge Protection Devices for Use in Liquid Argon TPC Detectors
• Breakdown voltage of metal-oxide resistors in liquid argon

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• Cryogenic CMOS Cameras for High Voltage Monitoring in Liquid Argon
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• MCP-based Photodetectors for Cryogenic Applications
• Segmentation of EM showers for neutrino experiments with deep graph neural networks