Study of nuclear recoils in liquid argon with monoenergetic neutrons

Details Study of nuclear recoils in liquid argon with monoenergetic neutrons Study of nuclear recoils in liquid argon with monoenergetic neutrons

2012-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/1203.0849v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

9 pages, 8 figures, proceedings of TAUP 2011, to be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JCPS)

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For the development of liquid argon dark matter detectors we assembled a setup in the laboratory to scatter neutrons on a small liquid argon target. The neutrons are produced mono-energetically (E_kin=2.45 MeV) by nuclear fusion in a deuterium plasma and are collimated onto a 3" liquid argon cell operating in single-phase mode (zero electric field). Organic liquid scintillators are used to tag scattered neutrons and to provide a time-of-flight measurement. The setup is designed to study light pulse shapes and scintillation yields from nuclear and electronic recoils as well as from {\alpha}-particles at working points relevant to dark matter searches. Liquid argon offers the possibility to scrutinise scintillation yields in noble liquids with respect to the populations of the two fundamental excimer states. Here we present experimental methods and first results from recent data towards such studies.

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