Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2007-06-08
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
To be published in the Proceedings of the 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, February 11-18, 2007. Th
Scientific paper
The Yale-Weizmann collaboration aims to develop a low-radioactivity (low-background) cryogenic noble liquid detector for Dark-Matter (DM) search in measurements to be performed deep underground as for example carried out by the XENON collaboration. A major issue is the background induced by natural radioactivity of present-detector components including the Photo Multiplier Tubes (PMT) made from glass with large U-Th content. We propose to use advanced Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) recently developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS). These "hole-multipliers" will measure in a two-phase (liquid/gas) Xe detector electrons extracted into the gas phase from both ionization in the liquid as well as scintillation-induced photoelectrons from a CsI photocathode immersed in LXe. We report on initial tests (in gas) of THGEM made out of Cirlex (Kapton) which is well known to have low Ra-Th content instead of the usual G10 material with high Ra-Th content.
Alon Raz
Breskin Amos
Cortesi Marco
Gai Marco
McKinsey Daniel N.
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