Physics – Instrumentation and Detectors
Scientific paper
2011-02-09
Europhys.Lett.94:52001,2011
Physics
Instrumentation and Detectors
6 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Europhysics Letter. Revised Figs. 3 and 4
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/94/52001
The study of primary and secondary scintillations in noble gases and liquids is of paramount importance to rare-event experiments using noble gas media. In the present work, the scintillation yield in gaseous and liquid Ar has for the first time been measured in the near infrared (NIR) and visible region, both for primary and secondary (proportional) scintillations, using Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (G-APDs) and pulsed X-ray irradiation. The primary scintillation yield of the fast component was measured to be 17000 photon/MeV in gaseous Ar in the NIR, in the range of 690-1000 nm, and 510 photon/MeV in liquid Ar, in the range of 400-1000 nm. Proportional NIR scintillations (electroluminescence) in gaseous Ar have been also observed; their amplification parameter at 163 K was measured to be 13 photons per drifting electron per kV. Possible applications of NIR scintillations in high energy physics experiments are discussed.
Bondar Alex
Buzulutskov Alexei
Grebenuk A. A.
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