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High pressure gas scintillation drift chambers with wave shifter fiber readout
A. Parsons,T.K. Edberg,Bernard Sadoulet,Shimon Weiss,Robert P. Lin,John F. Wilkerson,Kevin Hurley,G. Smith +7 more
- Vol. 1159, pp 45-56
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The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scintillation & Fiber.read more
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Noble Gas Detectors
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the history of the detection of neutrally ionized gas and its application in the field of detection of nuclear nuclear energy and nuclear energy.
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High-pressure xenon gas electroluminescent TPC for 0-ν ββ-decay search
D. R. Nygren,D. R. Nygren +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a specific method for generation and detection of the electroluminescent signal and particle tracking in high-pressure xenon gas TPC detectors is presented, and compared to detectors based on liquid xenon.
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Near-intrinsic energy resolution for 30–662 keV gamma rays in a high pressure xenon electroluminescent TPC
Víctor H. Alvarez,F.I.G.M. Borges,S. Cárcel,J. F. Castel,S. Cebrián,A. Cervera,C.A.N. Conde,T. Dafni,T.H.V.T. Dias,J. S. Díaz,M. Egorov,Romain Esteve,Petr Evtoukhovitch,L.M.P. Fernandes,Paola Ferrario,A.L. Ferreira,E.D.C. Freitas,V. M. Gehman,Ana M. Gil,A. Goldschmidt,Hector Gomez,J.J. Gómez-Cadenas,Diego González-Díaz,Roberto Gutiérrez,J. M. Hauptman,J. A. Hernando Morata,D.C. Herrera,F.J. Iguaz,I. G. Irastorza,M A Jinete,L. Labarga,I. Liubarsky,J. A. M. Lopes,D. Lorca,M. Losada,G. Luzón,A. Marí,J. Martín-Albo,Ana Martínez,T. Miller,A. Moiseenko,F. Monrabal,C.M.B. Monteiro,F.J. Mora,L.M. Moutinho,J. Muñoz Vidal,H. Natal da Luz,Gabriela Navarro,M. Nebot-Guinot,D. R. Nygren,Carlos R. Oliveira,Roberto Palma,Javier Pérez,J.L. Pérez Aparicio,J Renner,L. Ripoll,A Rodríguez,Javier Rodríguez,F.P. Santos,J.M.F. dos Santos,L. Segui,Luis M. Serra,D. Shuman,A. Simón,C. Sofka,M. Sorel,J.F. Toledo,A. Tomás,J. Torrent,Z. Tsamalaidze,D Vázquez,J.F.C.A. Veloso,José Villar,R. C. Webb,J. T. White,N. Yahlali +75 more
TL;DR: The Next prototype for Double Beta and Dark Matter (NEXT-DBDM) detector was built at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and achieved energy resolution of ∼ 1% FWHM for 662 keV gamma rays at 10 and 15 atm and ∼ 5% FWCM for 30 keV fluorescence xenon X-rays as discussed by the authors.
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Initial results of NEXT-DEMO, a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 experiment
Víctor H. Alvarez,F.I.G.M. Borges,S. Cárcel,J. F. Castel,S. Cebrián,A. Cervera,C.A.N. Conde,T. Dafni,T.H.V.T. Dias,J. S. Díaz,M. Egorov,Romain Esteve,Petr Evtoukhovitch,L.M.P. Fernandes,Paola Ferrario,A.L. Ferreira,E.D.C. Freitas,V. M. Gehman,Ana M. Gil,A. Goldschmidt,Hector Gomez,J.J. Gómez-Cadenas,Diego González-Díaz,Roberto Gutiérrez,J. M. Hauptman,J. A. Hernando Morata,D.C. Herrera,F.J. Iguaz,I. G. Irastorza,M A Jinete,L. Labarga,A. Laing,I. Liubarsky,J. A. M. Lopes,D. Lorca,Marta Losada,G. Luzón,A. Marí,J. Martín-Albo,Ana Martínez,T. Miller,A. Moiseenko,F. Monrabal,C.M.B. Monteiro,F.J. Mora,L.M. Moutinho,J. Muñoz Vidal,H. Natal da Luz,Gabriela Navarro,M. Nebot-Guinot,D. R. Nygren,Carlos R. Oliveira,Roberto Palma,J Pérez,J.L. Pérez Aparicio,J Renner,L. Ripoll,A Rodríguez,Javier Rodríguez,F.P. Santos,J.M.F. dos Santos,L. Segui,Luis M. Serra,D. Shuman,A. Simón,C. Sofka,M. Sorel,J F Toledo,A. Tomás,J. Torrent,Z. Tsamalaidze,D Vázquez,J.F.C.A. Veloso,José Villar,R. C. Webb,J. T. White,N. Yahlali +76 more
TL;DR: NEXT-DEMO as discussed by the authors is a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 detector, an electroluminescent time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of XE using 100-150 kg of enriched xenon gas.
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Primary and secondary scintillation measurements in a Xenon Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter
L.M.P. Fernandes,E.D.C. Freitas,M. Ball,J.J. Gómez-Cadenas,C.M.B. Monteiro,N. Yahlali,Dave Nygren,J.M.F. dos Santos +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a 100 kg radio-pure high-pressure gaseous xenon TPC to search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a VUV photosensor in a gas proportional scintillation counter.
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A xenon high-pressure proportional scintillation-camera for X and γ-ray imaging
TL;DR: In this paper, a γ-ray imaging detector, working at ambient temperature, with good energy resolution, good spatial accuracy and reasonable detection efficiency has been built, and the criteria for evaluation of light yield and energy resolution are given.
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High pressure gas scintillation drift chambers with wave-shifter fiber readout
A. Parsons,Bernard Sadoulet,Shimon Weiss,T.K. Edberg,J. Wilkerson,G. Smith,Robert P. Lin,Kevin Hurley +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a prototype xenon-gas scintillation drift chamber was operated at pressures up to 20 atm, and the light yield was measured at various pressures and reduced fields.
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Performance characteristics of a fluorescent gated gas scintillation proportional counter
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Gas Scintillation Drift Chambers with Wave Shifter Read-Out for Hard X-Ray Astronomy
TL;DR: In this article, a novel readout system based on wave shifter fibers was proposed for high pressure xenon time projection chambers where gas scintillation is used both for the measurement of the time of interaction and for the detection of the extracted electrons.
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Gas scintillation drift chambers with wave shifter fiber readout
TL;DR: In this paper, a prototype xenon gas scintillation drift chamber is presented, which uses two types of light detection schemes: one based on an Anger camera geometry and the other based on wave-shifting light fibers.