Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO

M. Jewell; A. Schubert; W. R. Cen; J. Dalmasson; R. DeVoe; L. Fabris; G. Gratta; A. Jamil; G. Li; A. Odian; M. Patel; A. Pocar; D. Qiu; Q. Wang; L. J. Wen; J. B. Albert; G. Anton; I. J. Arnquist; I. Badhrees; P. Barbeau; D. Beck; V. Belov; F. Bourque; J. P. Brodsky; E. Brown; T. Brunner; A. Burenkov; G. F. Cao; L. Cao; C. Chambers; S. A. Charlebois; M. Chiu; B. Cleveland; M. Coon; A. Craycraft; W. Cree; M. Cote; T. Daniels; S. J. Daugherty; J. Daughhetee; S. Delaquis; A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian; T. Didberidze; J. Dilling; Y. Y. Ding; M. J. Dolinski; A. Dragone; W. Fairbank; J. Farine; S. Feyzbakhsh; R. Fontaine; D. Fudenberg; G. Giacomini; R. Gornea; E. V. Hansen; D. Harris; M. Hasan; M. Heffner; E. W. Hoppe; A. House; P. Hufschmidt; M. Hughes; J. Hoessl; Y. Ito; A. Iverson; X. S. Jiang; S. Johnston; A. Karelin; L. J. Kaufman; T. Koffas; S. Kravitz; R. Krucken; A. Kuchenkov; K. S. Kumar; Y. Lan; D. S. Leonard; S. Li; Z. Li; C. Licciardi; Y. H. Lin; R. MacLellan; T. Michel; B. Mong; D. Moore; K. Murray; R. J. Newby; Z. Ning; O. Njoya; F. Nolet; K. Odgers; M. Oriunno; J. L. Orrell; I. Ostrovskiy; C. T. Overman; G. S. Ortega; S. Parent; A. Piepke; J. -F. Pratte; V. Radeka; E. Raguzin; T. Rao; S. Rescia; F. Retiere; A. Robinson; T. Rossignol; P. C. Rowson; N. Roy; R. Saldanha; S. Sangiorgio; S. Schmidt; J. Schneider; D. Sinclair; K. Skarpaas; A. K. Soma; G. St-Hilaire; V. Stekhanov; T. Stiegler; X. L. Sun; M. Tarka; J. Todd; T. Tolba; R. Tsang; T. Tsang; F. Vachon; V. Veeraraghavan; G. Visser; J. -L. Vuilleumier; M. Wagenpfeil; M. Weber; W. Wei; U. Wichoski; G. Wrede; S. X. Wu; W. H. Wu; L. Yang; Y. -R. Yen; O. Zeldovich; X. Zhang; J. Zhao; Y. Zhouh; T. Ziegler; nEXO Collaboration

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Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO

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Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO

M. Jewell, A. Schubert, W. R. Cen, J. Dalmasson, R. DeVoe, L. Fabris, G. Gratta, A. Jamil, G. Li, A. Odian, …

Journal of instrumentation, Vol.13(1), pp.P01006-P01006

01/01/2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/P01006

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A new design for the anode of a time projection chamber, consisting of a charge-detecting "tile", is investigated for use in large scale liquid xenon detectors. The tile is produced by depositing 60 orthogonal metal charge-collecting strips, 3 mm wide, on a 10 cm x 10 cm fused-silica wafer. These charge tiles may be employed by large detectors, such as the proposed tonne-scale nEXO experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Modular by design, an array of tiles can cover a sizable area. The width of each strip is small compared to the size of the tile, so a Frisch grid is not required. A grid-less, tiled anode design is beneficial for an experiment such as nEXO, where a wire tensioning support structure and Frisch grid might contribute radioactive backgrounds and would have to be designed to accommodate cycling to cryogenic temperatures. The segmented anode also reduces some degeneracies in signal reconstruction that arise in large-area crossed-wire time projection chambers. A prototype tile was tested in a cell containing liquid xenon. Very good agreement is achieved between the measured ionization spectrum of a Bi-207 source and simulations that include the microphysics of recombination in xenon and a detailed modeling of the electrostatic field of the detector. An energy resolution sigma/E = 5.5% is observed at 570 keV, comparable to the best intrinsic ionization-only resolution reported in literature for liquid xenon at 936 V/cm.

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Title: Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO
Creators - without role: M. Jewell - Stanford University
A. Schubert - Stanford University
W. R. Cen - Chinese Academy of Sciences
J. Dalmasson - Stanford University
R. DeVoe - Stanford University
L. Fabris - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
G. Gratta - Stanford University
A. Jamil - Yale University
G. Li - Stanford University
A. Odian - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
M. Patel - Stanford University
A. Pocar - University of Massachusetts Amherst
D. Qiu - Institute of Microelectronics
Q. Wang - Institute of Microelectronics
L. J. Wen - Institute of High Energy Physics
J. B. Albert - Indiana University Bloomington
G. Anton - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
I. J. Arnquist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
I. Badhrees - Carleton University
P. Barbeau - Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
D. Beck - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
V. Belov - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
F. Bourque - Université de Sherbrooke
J. P. Brodsky - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E. Brown - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
T. Brunner - McGill University
A. Burenkov - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
G. F. Cao - Institute of High Energy Physics
L. Cao - Institute of Microelectronics
C. Chambers - Colorado State University
S. A. Charlebois - Université de Sherbrooke
M. Chiu - Brookhaven National Laboratory
B. Cleveland - Laurentian University
M. Coon - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A. Craycraft - Colorado State University
W. Cree - Carleton University
M. Cote - Université de Sherbrooke
T. Daniels - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
S. J. Daugherty - Indiana University Bloomington
J. Daughhetee - University of South Dakota
S. Delaquis - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian - Laurentian University
T. Didberidze - University of Alabama
J. Dilling - TRIUMF
Y. Y. Ding - Institute of High Energy Physics
M. J. Dolinski - Drexel University
A. Dragone - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
W. Fairbank - Colorado State University
J. Farine - Laurentian University
S. Feyzbakhsh - University of Massachusetts Amherst
R. Fontaine - Université de Sherbrooke
D. Fudenberg - Stanford University
G. Giacomini - Brookhaven National Laboratory
R. Gornea - Carleton University
E. V. Hansen - Drexel University
D. Harris - Colorado State University
M. Hasan - University of South Dakota
M. Heffner - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E. W. Hoppe - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A. House - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P. Hufschmidt - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Hughes - University of Alabama
J. Hoessl - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Y. Ito - McGill University
A. Iverson - Colorado State University
X. S. Jiang - Chinese Academy of Sciences
S. Johnston - University of Massachusetts Amherst
A. Karelin - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
L. J. Kaufman - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
T. Koffas - Carleton University
S. Kravitz - Stanford University
R. Krucken - TRIUMF
A. Kuchenkov - Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
K. S. Kumar - Stony Brook University
Y. Lan - TRIUMF
D. S. Leonard - Ibs
S. Li - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Z. Li - Yale University
C. Licciardi - Laurentian University
Y. H. Lin - Drexel University
R. MacLellan - University of South Dakota
T. Michel - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
B. Mong - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
D. Moore - Yale University
K. Murray - McGill University
R. J. Newby - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z. Ning - Institute of High Energy Physics
O. Njoya - Stony Brook University
F. Nolet - Université de Sherbrooke
K. Odgers - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M. Oriunno - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
J. L. Orrell - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
I. Ostrovskiy - University of Alabama
C. T. Overman - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
G. S. Ortega - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
S. Parent - Université de Sherbrooke
A. Piepke - University of Alabama
J. -F. Pratte - Université de Sherbrooke
V. Radeka - Brookhaven National Laboratory
E. Raguzin - Brookhaven National Laboratory
T. Rao - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
S. Rescia - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
F. Retiere - TRIUMF
A. Robinson - Laurentian University
T. Rossignol - TRIUMF
P. C. Rowson - Menlo School
N. Roy - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
R. Saldanha - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
S. Sangiorgio - Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
S. Schmidt - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
J. Schneider - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
D. Sinclair - Carleton University
K. Skarpaas - Menlo School
A. K. Soma - University of Alabama
G. St-Hilaire - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
V. Stekhanov - Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
T. Stiegler - Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
X. L. Sun - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
M. Tarka - Stony Brook University
J. Todd - Colorado State University
T. Tolba - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
R. Tsang - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
T. Tsang - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
F. Vachon - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
V. Veeraraghavan - University of Alabama
G. Visser - Indiana University
J. -L. Vuilleumier - University of Bern
M. Wagenpfeil - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Weber - Stanford University
W. Wei - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
U. Wichoski - Laurentian University
G. Wrede - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
S. X. Wu - Stanford University
W. H. Wu - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
L. Yang - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Y. -R. Yen - Drexel University
O. Zeldovich - Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
X. Zhang - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
J. Zhao - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
Y. Zhouh - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing, Peoples R China
T. Ziegler - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
nEXO Collaboration
Publication Details: Journal of instrumentation, Vol.13(1), pp.P01006-P01006
Publisher: Iop Publishing Ltd
Number of pages: 21
Grant note: IBS in Korea CAS in China Office of Nuclear within DOE's Office of Science Office of High Energy Physics within DOE's Office of Science NSF in the United States; National Science Foundation (NSF) FRQNT in Canada RFBR in Russia; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) SNF in Switzerland NRC in Canada Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) CFI in Canada; Canada Foundation for Innovation ISTCP in China Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) NERSC in Canada Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
Identifiers: 9918903708331
Academic Unit: King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology; King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article