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Operation and performance of ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon time projection chamber
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1359
ProtoDUNE-DP was the largest ever built Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) operating in Dual-Phase (DP) mode, with a liquid target and charge read-out placed in the gas.…
Charge readout electronics for the DUNE horizontal drift far detector: design and performance in ProtoDUNE-HD
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1364
DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently under construction, whose far detectors will be the largest liquid argon ti…
Operation of a Modular 3D-Pixelated Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber in a Neutrino Beam
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1318
The 2x2 Demonstrator, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) liquid argon (LAr) Near Detector, was exposed to the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) n…
Spatial and Temporal Evaluations of the Liquid Argon Purity in ProtoDUNE-SP
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1320
Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) rely on highly pure argon to ensure that ionization electrons produced by charged particles reach readout arrays. ProtoDUNE Single-P…
The DUNE Phase II Detectors
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
Gas contamination and mitigation in a 100 m / 10 bar argon TPC with optical readout: a viability study
D. J. Fernández-Posada, D. González-Díaz, J. Baldonedo +5
Gaseous Optical Time Projection Chambers (OTPCs) aimed at Neutrino Physics and Rare Event Searches will likely exceed the tonne scale during the next decade. This will make their p…
Primary scintillation yields induced by particles in gas mixtures of Argon/CF at 9.5 bar
P. Amedo, S. Leardini, A. Saá-Hernández +1
We report time and band-resolved scintillation from -particles in Ar/CF mixtures at a pressure of 9.5 bar. Our results show that %-level addition of CF enables strong wa…
The track-length extension fitting algorithm for energy measurement of interacting particles in liquid argon TPCs and its performance with ProtoDUNE-SP data
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366
This paper introduces a novel track-length extension fitting algorithm for measuring the kinetic energies of inelastically interacting particles in liquid argon time projection cha…
DUNE Phase II: Scientific Opportunities, Detector Concepts, Technological Solutions
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366
The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…
Performance of a modular ton-scale pixel-readout liquid argon time projection chamber
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360
The Module-0 Demonstrator is a single-phase 600 kg liquid argon time projection chamber operated as a prototype for the DUNE liquid argon near detector. Based on the ArgonCube desi…
FAT-GEMs: (Field Assisted) Transparent Gaseous-Electroluminescence Multipliers
S. Leardini, A. Sáa-Hernández, M. Kuźniak +12
The idea of implementing electroluminescence-based amplification through transparent multi-hole structures (FAT-GEMs) has been entertained for some time. Arguably, for such a techn…
Doping Liquid Argon with Xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: Effects on Scintillation Light
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1317
Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation light. I…
On the determination of the interaction time of GeV neutrinos in large argon gas TPCs
A. Saá-Hernández, D. González-Díaz, J. Martín-Albo +15
Next-generation megawatt-scale neutrino beams open the way to studying neutrino-nucleus scattering using gaseous targets for the first time. This represents an opportunity to impro…
Scintillation of Ar/CF mixtures: glass-THGEM characterization with 1% CF at 1-1.5 bar
P. Amedo, R. Hafeji, A. Roberts +6
Argon gas doped with 1% wavelength-shifter (CF) has been employed in an optical time projection chamber (OTPC) to image cosmic radiation. We present results obtained during the…
Observation of strong wavelength-shifting in the argon-tetrafluoromethane system
P. Amedo, D. González-Díaz, F. M. Brunbauer +3
We report the scintillation spectra of Ar-CF mixtures in the range 210-800~nm, obtained under X-ray irradiation for various pressures (1-5~bar) and concentrations (0-100%). Spe…
Separation of track- and shower-like energy deposits in ProtoDUNE-SP using a convolutional neural network
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1221
Liquid argon time projection chamber detector technology provides high spatial and calorimetric resolutions on the charged particles traversing liquid argon. As a result, the techn…
Neutral Bremsstrahlung emission in xenon unveiled
C. A. O. Henriques, P. Amedo, J. M. R. Teixeira +90
We present evidence of non-excimer-based secondary scintillation in gaseous xenon, obtained using both the NEXT-White TPC and a dedicated setup. Detailed comparison with first-prin…
Time and band-resolved scintillation in time projection chambers based on gaseous xenon
S. Leardini, E. Sánchez García, P. Amedo +5
We present a systematic study of the time and band-resolved scintillation in xenon-based time projection chambers (TPCs), performed simultaneously for the primary (S1) and secondar…
Neutral Bremsstrahlung in TPCs
P. Amedo, D. González-Díaz, B. J. P. Jones
Traditionally, it has been assumed that electroluminescence (EL) in time projection chambers was purely an excimer-based emission. This idea changed when neutral bremsstrahlung (NB…
Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1175
The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that was constructed and operated in the CERN North Area at the end of the H4 beamline. Th…
Development of very-thick transparent GEMs with wavelength-shifting capability for noble element TPCs
M. Kuźniak, D. González-Díaz, P. Amedo +15
A new concept for the simultaneous detection of primary and secondary scintillation in time projection chambers is proposed. Its core element is a type of very-thick GEM structure…
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector Conceptual Design Report
A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1059
This report describes the conceptual design of the DUNE near detector