Doping liquid argon with xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: effects on scintillation light
Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 19:08 (2024) P08005
Authors:
A Abed Abud, B Abi, R Acciarri, MA Acero, MR Adames, G Adamov, M Adamowski, D Adams, M Adinolfi, C Adriano, A Aduszkiewicz, J Aguilar, B Aimard, F Akbar, K Allison, S Alonso Monsalve, M Alrashed, A Alton, R Alvarez, H Amar Es-sghir, P Amedo, J Anderson, DA Andrade, C Andreopoulos, F AzfarAbstract:
Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation light. In this paper, we present the results of the first doping test ever performed in a kiloton-scale LArTPC. From February to May 2020, we carried out this special run in the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype (ProtoDUNE-SP) at CERN, featuring 720 t of total liquid argon mass with 410 t of fiducial mass. A 5.4 ppm nitrogen contamination was present during the xenon doping campaign. The goal of the run was to measure the light and charge response of the detector to the addition of xenon, up to a concentration of 18.8 ppm. The main purpose was to test the possibility for reduction of non-uniformities in light collection, caused by deployment of photon detectors only within the anode planes. Light collection was analysed as a function of the xenon concentration, by using the pre-existing photon detection system (PDS) of ProtoDUNE-SP and an additional smaller set-up installed specifically for this run. In this paper we first summarize our current understanding of the argon-xenon energy transfer process and the impact of the presence of nitrogen in argon with and without xenon dopant. We then describe the key elements of ProtoDUNE-SP and the injection method deployed. Two dedicated photon detectors were able to collect the light produced by xenon and the total light. The ratio of these components was measured to be about 0.65 as 18.8 ppm of xenon were injected. We performed studies of the collection efficiency as a function of the distance between tracks and light detectors, demonstrating enhanced uniformity of response for the anode-mounted PDS. We also show that xenon doping can substantially recover light losses due to contamination of the liquid argon by nitrogen.First Measurement of the Total Inelastic Cross-Section of Positively-Charged Kaons on Argon at Energies Between 5.0 and 7.5 GeV
(2024)
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DUNE Collaboration, A Abed Abud, B Abi, R Acciarri, MA Acero, MR Adames, G Adamov, M Adamowski, D Adams, M Adinolfi, C Adriano, A Aduszkiewicz, J Aguilar, F Akbar, K Allison, S Alonso Monsalve, M Alrashed, A Alton, R Alvarez, T Alves, H Amar, P Amedo, J Anderson, C Andreopoulos, M Andreotti, MP Andrews, F Andrianala, S Andringa, N Anfimov, A Ankowski, D Antic, M Antoniassi, M Antonova, A Antoshkin, A Aranda-Fernandez, L Arellano, E Arrieta Diaz, MA Arroyave, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, D Asner, L Asquith, E Atkin, D Auguste, A Aurisano, V Aushev, D Autiero, MB Azam, F Azfar, A Back, H Back, JJ Back, I Bagaturia, L Bagby, N Balashov, S Balasubramanian, P Baldi, W Baldini, J Baldonedo, B Baller, B Bambah, R Banerjee, F Barao, D Barbu, G Barenboim, P Barham~Alzás, GJ Barker, W Barkhouse, G Barr, J Barranco Monarca, A Barros, N Barros, D Barrow, JL Barrow, A Basharina-Freshville, A Bashyal, V Basque, C Batchelor, L Bathe-Peters, JBR Battat, F Battisti, F Bay, MCQ Bazetto, JLL Bazo Alba, JF Beacom, E Bechetoille, B Behera, E Belchior, G Bell, L Bellantoni, G Bellettini, V Bellini, O Beltramello, N Benekos, C Benitez Montiel, D Benjamin, F Bento Neves, J Berger, S Berkman, J Bernal, P Bernardini, A Bersani, S Bertolucci, M Betancourt, A Betancur Rodríguez, A Bevan, Y Bezawada, AT Bezerra, TJ Bezerra, A Bhat, V Bhatnagar, J Bhatt, M Bhattacharjee, M Bhattacharya, S Bhuller, B Bhuyan, S Biagi, J Bian, K Biery, B Bilki, M Bishai, A Bitadze, A Blake, FD Blaszczyk, GC Blazey, E Blucher, A Bodek, J Bogenschuetz, J Boissevain, S Bolognesi, T Bolton, L Bomben, M Bonesini, C Bonilla-Diaz, F Bonini, A Booth, F Boran, S Bordoni, R Borges Merlo, A Borkum, N Bostan, R Bouet, J Boza, J Bracinik, B Brahma, D Brailsford, F Bramati, A Branca, A Brandt, J Bremer, C Brew, SJ Brice, V Brio, C Brizzolari, C Bromberg, J Brooke, A Bross, G Brunetti, M Brunetti, N Buchanan, H Budd, J Buergi, A Bundock, D Burgardt, S Butchart, G Caceres V., I Cagnoli, T Cai, R Calabrese, R Calabrese, J Calcutt, L 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Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 19:07 (2024) P07032
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P Abratenko, O Alterkait, D Andrade Aldana, L Arellano, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, S Balasubramanian, B Baller, G Barr, D Barrow, J Barrow, V Basque, O Benevides Rodrigues, S Berkman, A Bhanderi, A Bhat, M Bhattacharya, M Bishai, A Blake, B Bogart, T Bolton, JY Book, L Camilleri, Y Cao, K DuffyAbstract:
We present a novel methodology to search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transition (n⟶n̅) followed by n̅-nucleon annihilation within an 40Ar nucleus, using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector. A discovery of n⟶n̅ transition or a new best limit on the lifetime of this process would either constitute physics beyond the Standard Model or greatly constrain theories of baryogenesis, respectively. The approach presented in this paper makes use of deep learning methods to select n⟶n̅ events based on their unique features and differentiate them from cosmogenic backgrounds. The achieved signal and background efficiencies are (70.22 ± 6.04)% and (0.0020 ± 0.0003)%, respectively. A demonstration of a search is performed with a data set corresponding to an exposure of 3.32 ×1026 neutron-years, and where the background rate is constrained through direct measurement, assuming the presence of a negligible signal. With this approach, no excess of events over the background prediction is observed, setting a demonstrative lower bound on the n⟶n̅ lifetime in 40Ar of τm ≳ 1.1×1026 years, and on the free n⟶n̅ transition time of τn⟶n̅ ≳ 2.6×105 s, each at the 90% confidence level. This analysis represents a first-ever proof-of-principle demonstration of the ability to search for this rare process in LArTPCs with high efficiency and low background.First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 133:4 (2024) 041801
Authors:
P Abratenko, O Alterkait, D Andrade Aldana, L Arellano, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, S Balasubramanian, B Baller, G Barr, D Barrow, J Barrow, V Basque, O Benevides Rodrigues, S Berkman, A Bhanderi, A Bhat, M Bhattacharya, M Bishai, A Blake, B Bogart, T Bolton, JY Book, MB Brunetti, L Camilleri, Y Cao, D Caratelli, F Cavanna, G Cerati, A Chappell, Y Chen, JM Conrad, M Convery, L Cooper-Troendle, JI Crespo-Anadón, R Cross, M Del Tutto, SR Dennis, P Detje, A Devitt, R Diurba, Z Djurcic, R Dorrill, K Duffy, S Dytman, B Eberly, P Englezos, A Ereditato, JJ Evans, R Fine, OG Finnerud, W Foreman, BT Fleming, D Franco, AP Furmanski, F Gao, D Garcia-Gamez, S Gardiner, G Ge, S Gollapinni, E Gramellini, P Green, H Greenlee, L Gu, W Gu, R Guenette, P Guzowski, L Hagaman, O Hen, C Hilgenberg, GA Horton-Smith, Z Imani, B Irwin, MS Ismail, C James, X Ji, JH Jo, RA Johnson, Y-J Jwa, D Kalra, N Kamp, G Karagiorgi, W Ketchum, M Kirby, T Kobilarcik, I Kreslo, MB Leibovitch, I Lepetic, J-Y Li, K Li, Y Li, K Lin, BR Littlejohn, H Liu, WC Louis, X Luo, C Mariani, D Marsden, J Marshall, N Martinez, DA Martinez Caicedo, S Martynenko, A Mastbaum, I Mawby, N McConkey, V Meddage, J Micallef, K Miller, A Mogan, T Mohayai, M Mooney, AF Moor, CD Moore, L Mora Lepin, MM Moudgalya, S Mulleriababu, D Naples, A Navrer-Agasson, N Nayak, M Nebot-Guinot, J Nowak, N Oza, O Palamara, N Pallat, V Paolone, A Papadopoulou, V Papavassiliou, HB Parkinson, SF Pate, N Patel, Z Pavlovic, E Piasetzky, I Pophale, X Qian, JL Raaf, V Radeka, A Rafique, M Reggiani-Guzzo, L Ren, L Rochester, J Rodriguez Rondon, M Rosenberg, M Ross-Lonergan, C Rudolf von Rohr, I Safa, G Scanavini, DW Schmitz, A Schukraft, W Seligman, MH Shaevitz, R Sharankova, J Shi, EL Snider, M Soderberg, S Söldner-Rembold, J Spitz, M Stancari, J St. John, T Strauss, AM Szelc, W Tang, N Taniuchi, K Terao, C Thorpe, D Torbunov, D Totani, M Toups, Y-T Tsai, J Tyler, MA Uchida, T Usher, B Viren, M Weber, H Wei, AJ White, S Wolbers, T Wongjirad, M Wospakrik, K Wresilo, W Wu, E Yandel, T Yang, LE Yates, HW Yu, GP Zeller, J Zennamo, C ZhangSupernova Pointing Capabilities of DUNE
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