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most citedDesign and operation of ARGONTUBE: a 5 m long drift liquid argon TPC

38 citations · 138 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.ins-det2016★ 4 cited

A Novel Cosmic Ray Tagger System for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors

M. Auger, M. Del Tutto, A. Ereditato +13

The Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program aims to observe and reconstruct thousands of neutrino-argon interactions with its three detectors (SBND, MicroBooNE and ICARUS-T6…

physics.ins-det2016★ 9 cited

Multi-channel front-end board for SiPM readout

M. Auger, A. Ereditato, D. Goeldi +6

We describe a novel high-speed front-end electronic board (FEB) for interfacing an array of 32 Silicon Photo-multipliers (SiPM) with a computer. The FEB provides individually adjus…

physics.ins-det2015★ 18 cited

On the Electric Breakdown in Liquid Argon at Centimeter Scale

M. Auger, A. Blatter, A. Ereditato +7

We present a study on the dependence of electric breakdown discharge properties on electrode geometry and the breakdown field in liquid argon near its boiling point. The measuremen…

physics.ins-det2014★ 9 cited

Performance of cryogenic charge readout electronics with the ARGONTUBE LAr TPC

A. Ereditato, D. Goeldi, S. Janos +7

ARGONTUBE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) with an electron drift length of up to 5 m equipped with cryogenic charge-sensitive preamplifiers. In this work, we presen…

physics.ins-det2014★ 13 cited

Measurement of the drift field in the ARGONTUBE LAr TPC with 266~nm pulsed laser beams

A. Ereditato, D. Goeldi, S. Janos +7

ARGONTUBE is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) with a drift field generated in-situ by a Greinacher voltage multiplier circuit. We present results on the measurement…

physics.ins-det2014★ 10 cited

A method to suppress dielectric breakdowns in liquid argon ionization detectors for cathode to ground distances of several millimeters

M. Auger, A. Ereditato, D. Goeldi +7

We present a method to reach electric field intensity as high as 400 kV/cm in liquid argon for cathode-ground distances of several millimeters. This can be achieved by suppressing…

physics.ins-det2014★ 10 cited

A steerable UV laser system for the calibration of liquid argon time projection chambers

A. Ereditato, I. Kreslo, M. Lüthi +5

A number of liquid argon time projection chambers (LAr TPC's) are being build or are proposed for neutrino experiments on long- and short baseline beams. For these detectors a dist…

physics.ins-det2014★ 21 cited

Experimental study of electric breakdowns in liquid argon at centimeter scale

A. Blatter, A. Ereditato, C. -C. Hsu +8

In this paper we present results on measurements of the dielectric strength of liquid argon near its boiling point and cathode-anode distances in the range of 0.1 mm to 40 mm with…

physics.ins-det2013★ 6 cited

Development of a camera casing suited for cryogenic and vacuum applications

S. C. Delaquis, R. Gornea, S. Janos +4

We report on the design, construction, and operation of a PID temperature controlled and vacuum tight camera casing. The camera casing contains a commercial digital camera and a li…

physics.ins-det2013★ 38 cited

Design and operation of ARGONTUBE: a 5 m long drift liquid argon TPC

A. Ereditato, C. C. Hsu, S. Janos +7

The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) is a prime type of detector for future large-mass neutrino observatories and proton decay searches. In this paper we present the d…