Absorption of Scintillation Light in a 100 $\ell$ Liquid Xenon$γ$ Ray Detector and Expected Detector Performance

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2004-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0407033v1

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A545 (2005) 753-764

Physics

Instrumentation and Detectors

18 pages, 10 figures (eps). Submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nima.2005.02.029

An 800L liquid xenon scintillation $\gamma$ ray detector is being developed for the MEG experiment which will search for $\mu^+\to\mathrm{e}^+\gamma$ decay at the Paul Scherrer Institut. Absorption of scintillation light of xenon by impurities might possibly limit the performance of such a detector. We used a 100L prototype with an active volume of 372x372x496 mm$^3$ to study the scintillation light absorption. We have developed a method to evaluate the light absorption, separately from elastic scattering of light, by measuring cosmic rays and $\alpha$ sources. By using a suitable purification technique, an absorption length longer than 100 cm has been achieved. The effects of the light absorption on the energy resolution are estimated by Monte Carlo simulation.

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